The walkout was as a result of the refusal of the speaker to act on the requirement to remove the axed councillors from the chambers.
“Despite this, the speaker has refused to act on these vacancies claiming not to have received the official notice. The multiparty coalition sought to draw to the speaker’s attention that section 27 of the Municipal Structures Act requires councillors elected from the PR lists to councils to be members of a political party,” said Mulder.
“It is suspected that allowing these councillors to vote was an essential component in the plan of the ANC and EFF to have their candidate elected today to the position of mayor of Tshwane and to co-ordinate this along with the ANC’s march to the council chamber — an act consistent with the intimidation we have seen in previous council meetings.”
However, he maintained the speaker “bizarrely” accepted the proposal to obtain a legal opinion and adjourned the meeting only to reverse his decision and return at 7pm without a legal opinion, saying that at this point the multiparty coalition had resolved to walk out of the council meeting.
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