# The EFF has written to National Assembly Speaker Thoko Didiza, demanding that she declare the election of Joint Standing Committee on Defence co-chairperson, Mzimasi Hala, unconstitutional and illegal. This follows the ANC’s sudden and unexplained removal of Malusi Gigaba from the position on Wednesday. The EFF says the meeting in which Hala was appointed had been convened and conducted in violation of Parliament’s Joint Rules. It argues that a joint committee cannot elect a replacement for a position without a formal withdrawal or resignation being properly placed before Parliament.
EFF wants the election of the new Joint Standing Committee on Defence co-chairperson declared unconstitutional