Civil servants inch closer to voting in primary elections

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Civil servants could vote in the Botswana Democratic Party’s (BDP) primaries starting October 21, 2017. This follows the Court of Appeal (CoA) having dismissed government’s application for an expedited appeal of a recent ruling allowing public officers to participate in political parties’ primary elections.

Yesterday, CoA acting Judge President, Isaac Lesetedi dismissed government’s bid, stating that there was simply no room for any proper allocation of a date of hearing, taking into account the CoA’s pending October session and the workload before it.

Government has a window of relief, however, as Lesetedi said the matter would be placed on the roll call for October 6 to see if any acceptable date may emerge, depending on other cases being postponed or withdrawn. 

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