Constitution allows filing presidential petition out of time
Daily Monitor Thursday February 11 2021 Summary The Hansard shows that when Article 104 was amended in December 2017 to increase the number of days from 10 to 15, the issue of whether weekends and public holidays are counted for the purpose of filing a petition did not come up. Advertisement Article 104 of the 1995 Constitution provides that a presidential petition ‘shall be lodged in the Supreme Court registry within 15 days after the declaration of the election results.’ Article 104(2) uses the word ‘shall’, which means that the petition must be lodged within 15 days. The questi...
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