Modise confident High Court will rule in her favour in secret ballot
National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise is confident that the Western Cape High Court will rule in her favour in the legal battle against the African Transformation Movement (ATM).
The ATM’s application to review her decision not to allow the votes in the motion of no confidence in President Cyril Ramaphosa to be cast by way of an secret ballot will be heard by a full bench next year.
The application will be hear by the High Court in February.
Modise officially postponed the motion of no confidence in President Ramaphosa at the start of the National Assembly plenary on Thursday.
The debate and vote was set to take place on Thursday afternoon.
A previous Constitutional Court judgment found that the environment leading up to the vote must be toxic and highly charged for it to make use of a secret ballot.
“The decision of the court in this particular matter, the court had not interfered with the right and authority of the speaker to make a decision whether to be a secret ballot or an open ballot, so we will leave it at that,” she told MPs.
“The reason we are referring the matter to the programme committee, is that whatever rearrangements will have to be considered by that committee, simply for practical reasons and to make sure that there are no matters that falls between the cracks because suddenly we must reschedule this matter.”
