South Africa’s opposition MK party seeks to block resumption of Parliament

If all goes according to the constitution, South Africa’s newly elected members of parliament will most likely be sworn in this Friday and in turn elect the president. But the South Africa Mail & Guardian reports Monday that the uMkhonto we Sizwe, or MK, party has directed its lawyers to petition the Constitutional Court to stop the parliament from sitting. The party says it wants to challenge the results of the May 29th elections for possible fraud. Professor Sipho Seepe, a political analyst and former Deputy Vice Chancellor for Institutional Support at the University of Zululand, tells VOA’s James Butty , the Constitutional Court is likely to dismiss any MK party petition for – in his view -- trying to hold the country to ransom.