COPE CALLS FOR CONSTITUTIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND NATIONAL STABILITY FOLLOWING PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA ADDRESS TO THE NATION

The COPE leader Teboho Loate acknowledges and respects the President’s constitutional right to seek judicial review of the findings of the independent parliamentary panel. In a constitutional democracy founded on the rule of law, every person, including the President, is entitled to exercise legal remedies available under the Constitution.

Leote says the Constitutional Court judgment was not merely a technical procedural matter. It was a serious indictment of Parliament’s failure to fulfil its constitutional oversight obligations after the National Assembly improperly used its rules and majority power to shield the Executive from scrutiny.

COPE therefore reiterates that South Africa must avoid two dangerous extremes;

·Protecting leaders from accountability through political majorities; and

·Pursuing political instability and institutional paralysis through reckless opportunism.

“We do not believe that constitutional accountability should be reduced to political theater, factional battles, or populist grandstanding. Equally, we reject any attempt to minimize the significance of the Constitutional Court judgment,” said Teboho Loate, COPE’s leader. The impeachment process must now proceed independently, transparently, fairly, and without political interference, Loate concluded.

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