With each mayoral committee member having declared themselves ‘mayor’, the Nelson Mandela Bay metro was plunged into what MEC for cooperative governance and traditional affairs Xolile Nqatha described as ‘lawlessness and chaos' in the ANC-led coalition ...
To form a majority government, a coalition must have 61 seats. The other parties in council are the FF+, ACDP, the Defenders of the People and the Patriotic Alliance, with two seats each. The Good Party, UDM, AIC and AIM each have a single seat. The Northern Alliance is the largest of the small parties, with three seats.
The new structure will allow for parties to be represented in high level oversight committees in the same proportion that they are represented in government.
Van Niekerk said the NA has not joined the new coalition because they had taken a principled stand that the same party should not hold the positions of both mayor and speaker. “The political environment in the municipality has never been a stable one, even in the previous term of council, but the administration during the past years managed to hold things together and was relatively not heavily influenced by politics.
“The members of the mayoral committee see themselves as mayors in their own right and they do as they wish in their portfolios…
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