AG asks ConCourt to throw out Sangwa’s petition for want of time

ATTORNEY General Likando Kalaluka has asked the Constitutional Court to dismiss for want of time, Constitutional Lawyer John Sangwa’s petition in which he wants the court to order ECZ to amend the affidavit for presidential candidates and running mates to include the number of times the candidate has held office as President. According to the response filed in the Constitutional Court, Kalaluka stated that the Statutory Instrument being challenged by Sangwa was promulgated on August 12, 2016 and by law can only be challenged within 14 days. “Further, the electoral process (general) regulations SI was promulgated on 12th August 2016. That by Article 67(3) of the constitution, any person, including the petitioner may challenge a statutory instrument, for its constitutionality,…...