After 30 years in power, the African National Congress must engage in tricky coalition talks with its main rivals
With 99% of the votes counted at the national results centre in Midrand, it is clear the ANC must find a new way to govern.With 99% of the votes counted at the national results centre in Midrand, it is clear the ANC must find a new way to govern.
More than 50 parties contested the election, many of them with tiny shares of the vote, but the DA and MK appear to be the most obvious for the ANC to approach, given how far it is from a majority. Which coalition the ANC pursues is the urgent focus now, given parliament needs to sit and elect a president within 14 days of the final election results being officially declared. A flurry of negotiations are set to take place.
An ANC-DA coalition “would be a marriage of two drunk people in Las Vegas. It will never work,” Gayton McKenzie, the leader of the smaller Patriotic Alliance party, told South African media.
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