'We know we reached as many people as we could. We made a win a reality.'
Alan Winde, the Western Cape premier-elect, celebrates the DA's victory in the Western Cape outside the provincial legislature on Thursday May 16 2019.The DA may have lost five seats in parliament and seen its Western Cape support decline, but that did not stop it celebrating its retention of the province on Thursday.
"We know we reached as many people as we could. We made a win a reality," he said."Every single blue person in this province, whether you were just a voter, whether you were door-to-door, whatever you were, you were the blue people that made this 55% a reality." The election numbers were not what the DA hoped for, with its share of the vote in the Western Cape declining from 59.38% in 2014 to 55.58%.
"Of course, in any political party you want to grow all the time, but I'm really happy with the 55% result," said Winde, adding that the DA would analyse the results in each province to see where it needed to improve."You see a kind of resurgence of either nationalism or populism and then across all different lines," said Winde."Of course that does concern me."
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