Lawmakers in the 400-seat National Assembly will be called to appoint a speaker and start the process of electing the country's president.
This combination of pictures created on May 22, 2024 shows African National Congress president and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa looking on during a door-to-door campaign in Ekurhuleni on March 10, 2024, leader of the South African main opposition party Democratic Alliance John Steenhuisen waving to supporters as he arrives during the conclusion of the partys country-wide Rescue South Africa Tour in Soweto on May 9, 2024, and Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema looking...
For the first time since the advent of democracy in 1994, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s African National Congress lost its absolute parliamentary majority in the May 29 vote.The party of late anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela won 40 percent of the vote — its lowest ever score — and now needs the backing of other parties to govern.
The ANC has already indicated it wants to form a government of national unity with a broad group of opposition parties, ranging from the far right to the hard left. The proposal met a cool reception from some last week, with the radical leftist Economic Freedom Fighters initially dismissing the idea of joining hands with rivals holding radically different political views, such as the centre-right Democratic Alliance .
But talks continued over the weekend and the top leaders of some parties, including the DA, were holding internal discussions on Monday to decide a way forward.Meanwhile, former president Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe party — which came third in the election, winning 14.6 percent of the vote and 58 seats — said it was to file a court appeal to prevent the new parliament from convening, pending a separate complaint over alleged election irregularities.
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