DA’s provincial chair for Gauteng, Mike Moriarty, says the party could lose seats if Tshwane council is dissolved and by-elections are held: “We will have the greatest number of seats, but if the 2019 results are a trend, then fewer than we have currently”
While the ANC and the EFF welcomed this decision, the DA has questioned whether it was legal and whether the correct processes were taken in reaching it.
In a letter sent on Thursday to Gauteng Premier David Makhura and the provincial MEC for cooperative governance and traditional affairs, Lebogang Maile, attorneys Minde Schapiro & Smith, acting for the DA, asked for confirmation on whether the intervention was made under the terms of section 139 of the Constitution.
In a second letter, also addressed to the premier and MEC, the lawyers requested that the Gauteng executive committee list the reasons that led to the decision to place the municipality under administration. The DA’s provincial chair for Gauteng, Mike Moriarty, told City Press that he believed the matter could have been resolved in another way, rather than dissolve council.
Moriarty pointed to the possibility that the DA could lose seats if the council was dissolved and by-elections were held.
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