DA's Cilliers Brink elected as City of Tshwane mayor | The Citizen

Democratic Alliance (DA) councillor Cilliers Brink has been elected the new executive mayor of the City of Tshwane. 🏦 Politics

The metropolitan municipality convened a special meeting in the Tshwane House on Tuesday to vote for a new mayor after failing to do so on two previous occasions.

Before the voting could start the African National Congress and Economic Freedom Fighters refused to take part in the process until action was taken against the DA over the “Two weeks ago, the DA instructed its 69 councillors to mark ballots with allocated numbers in order to identify which candidate they voted for during the election of the speaker, which took place via secret ballot.

“This council must know that every time when [we vote via] secret ballot there are some parties that victimise their members,” Tshwane EFF chairperson Obakeng Ramabodu said on Tuesday. The ANC-EFF alliance reversed its decision to nominate Pan Africanist Congress of Azania councillor Molwantwa Tshabadi as the preferred mayoral candidate.Meanwhile, Ramabodu also raised concern over Monday afternoon’s events in Tshwane House.

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