Democracy Watch says it hopes a court ruling in its favour will stop future snap elections that it calls "unfair" and "illegal"

Democracy Watch says its legal challenge of the validity of Premier John Horgan's snap election call in late 2020, as the COVID 19 pandemic was nearing its height, begins today and continues tomorrow in BC Supreme Court in Vancouver.

Democracy Watch says the goal of the court challenge is not to overturn the election.

Instead, it wants the court to rule that the election call violated the sovereignty of Parliament because it happened one year before the fixed election date which had been approved by the legislature.

Democracy Watch advocates for democratic reform and government accountability, and says it hopes a court ruling in its favour will stop future snap elections that it calls ``unfair'' and ``illegal.''