Opposition to appeal poll deregistration

Namibia Economic Freedom Fighters (NEFF) deputy president Kalimbo Iipumbu says the party will ask the High Court to set aside the Electoral Commission of Namibia’s decision to cancel its registration as a political party. This after the NEFF lost its case against the commission in the Electoral Court last Monday. The Namibian reports that he said the party would explore all avenues to bring it back into the political landscape. The commission cancelled the NEFF’s registration in June because the party failed to lodge its audited annual financial results with the commission as required by the Electoral Act. The NEFF, which won two seats in the National Assembly in the November 2019 parliamentary elections, was asking the court to order the commission not to proceed with the implementation of its decision to cancel its registration as a political party. Iipumbu said the NEFF would now file its case against the ECN at the Windhoek High Court. ‘We formed this organisation to represent the working class and the poor, and we are not going to be undermined by those who think they can just do things now and let it go. We will remain fighters,’ he said.