The call by DA for a moonshot pact has been framed almost exclusively in terms of avoiding a “doomsday coalition” between ANC and EFF. Politics ActionSA Coalitions Read the opinion piece below 👇
Another important function of an electoral pact is that it signals to voters that the pact parties are safe votes that will not end up cooperating with the third party.
But an electoral pact could fulfil another important purpose in a proportional system. Pacts could mitigate and, with some luck, end the infighting that has characterised South African coalition politics for the last year. Elections analyst Dawie Scholtz recently asked on Twitter what a moonshot pact’s economic policies would be.
Opposition to an ANC-EFF government is touted as the main reason for the moonshot pact, but mere opposition would be insufficient to inspire many voters, particularly former ANC voters. A meaty manifesto runs the risk of gradually transforming the collective of many diverse parties that each represent clear ideological or demographic constituencies, into a single big-tent party that – ineffectively – seeks to be everything to everyone. In my mind, there is an obvious solution in perhaps the most obvious place: the constitution.
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