R2K statement on the public’s right to know where political parties get their money
30 September 2015
The Right2Know Campaign is extremely disappointed at today’s Constitutional Court judgement, which recognises the public’s right to know where political parties get their money – but falls short of delivering the justice needed to exercise that right. My Vote Counts (MVC) argued the case in February 2015, calling on Parliament to pass a law requiring political parties to tell us who gives them their money.
The majority judgment of the Court found that even though the public does have that right to know, MVC should rather have challenged the failure of the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) to allow for the ongoing release of party funding information.
See MyVoteCount’s statement and the judgement here.
We agree with Judge Cameron for the minority judgement who said: