Court orders injunctions on use of Linyon Sanzman and Linyon Sosyal Demokratik names |18 August 2016
The Supreme Court yesterday issued orders to the Electoral Commission not to register any party under the names Linyon Sanzman (LS) and Lafors Sosyal Demokratik (LSD), and to cancel any registration of any party and of any candidates using that name.
The Linyon Demokratik Seselwa (LDS) sought the injunctions after the Electoral Commission proceeded to re-establish, just before Nomination Day for the National Assembly elections, the registration of a party under the name Linyon Sanzman and also to register a new party under the name Lafors Sosyal Demokratik.
The injunctions were requested together with judicial review of these decisions by the Supreme Court which will be heard by the Supreme Court on September 21, 2016.
Linyon Demokratik Seselwa (LDS) has maintained that no party other than itself should be allowed to use the name Linyon Sanzman because it has been widely associated with that name. It has also objected to the use of the name Lafors Sosyal Demokratik (LSD) because it closely resembles its own name and is therefore contrary to Section 7 of the Political Parties (Registration and Representation) Act.
Linyon Demokratik Seselwa considers that both of these names have been registered with the malicious intent of confusing and misleading voters sympathetic to LDS and it will therefore continue to strongly object to the use of the names.