Parliament won't oppose Phala Phala review bid
Parliament will not oppose President Cyril Ramaphosa’s challenge to the Section 89 panel report that found he may have an impeachment case to answer, reports TimesLIVE.
National Assembly speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula yesterday told MPs that the legislature will abide by the court’s decision.
As reported previously, Ramaphosa approached the Constitutional Court to review the report, saying the panel chaired by former Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo ‘misconceived its mandate, misjudged the information placed before it and misinterpreted the four charges’ against him.
He asked the court to declare the report unlawful and set it aside, particularly its finding that he may have been involved in impeachable conduct.
He also asked the court to declare that ‘any steps taken by the National Assembly pursuant to the report are equally unlawful and invalid’.
‘We have received information about the contents of his submission and we have decided we will wait for the court to deal with the matter and we will abide by the decisions of the court,’ said Mapisa-Nqakula.
However, the Speaker said she will defend challenges to her decision to refuse secret balloting when the National Assembly voted to reject the report which called for the establishment of an impeachment inquiry to hold Ramaphosa accountable for allegedly concealing the burglary.
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