The DA will not stop working to turn unstable minority governments into stable majority coalitions
At the time of writing, 33 local, district and metropolitan municipalities across SA had DA mayors, and this could go up to 35 in the next couple of days, with Metsimaholo and Overberg still in the balance. This list spans seven different provinces and includes places where the DA has never been in government before — places such as KwaZulu-Natal’s Umngeni and the Eastern Cape’s Beyers Naudé Municipality.
The remaining municipalities either have reasonably stable majority coalitions or they have minority governments, where no majority coalition could be formed and where each council vote is decided on an ad hoc basis.
We singled out the EFF in this regard because we’ve learnt hard lessons from our previous attempt at governing Johannesburg with their hands on the steering wheel. But also because we know that they stand diametrically opposed to almost every core principle and value of ours. This makes finding common ground, in service of the people, extremely difficult if not impossible. That is why we said we would not vote for a governing arrangement that relied on their support.
But here’s the silver lining: we wouldn’t have decided to field mayoral candidates in any of these metros and municipalities if we did not have candidates we trust entirely to do a great job. We put their names forward because we know they are capable and committed public servants. And, as the second largest party in most of these municipalities, we have a duty to our voters to represent them with the best DA candidates.
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