Philipsburg:--- The leader of the Concordia Political Alliance Jeffry Richardson is expected to appear before the court of instance on Friday where his lawyers from HBN law would be presenting a file against the civil registry in order to add Leo Richardson as a candidate of the CPA list. Richardson met with the Acting Lt. Governor Reynold Groeneveldt on Thursday afternoon where they agreed that a decision to add the candidate must be taken by a judge. It is believed that if the case is submitted during an emergency hearing on Friday, a verdict can be delivered as early as Sunday so that the main voting bureau can proceed with the procedures to finalize the four lists that are contesting the election.SMN News has been reliably informed that the civil registry made some crucial mistakes when dealing with the registration of Leo Richardson on July 16th. Sources say Leo Richardson's file had disappeared and then reappeared and that even though Richardson submitted his documents to register on St. Maarten nothing was entered in the system on August 18. SMN News further learnt that the civil registry is over burdened with work since the ongoing Brooks Tower process thus creating a backlog.
