We will defeat Zuma no confidence motion, says ANC
The ruling party says it has confidence in the ANC caucus not to vote in support of a motion to remove the president.
President Jacob Zuma speaks at the traditional leaders indaba at the Birchwood Hotel in Boksburg on 29 May 2017. The indaba allows a platform for stakeholders to discuss issues and the roles of traditional leaders in society and policy. Picture: Yeshiel Panchia
The ANC rallied behind President Jacob Zuma on Thursday after the highest court in the country ruled a secret no confidence ballot could be called by speaker of parliament Baleka Mbete against the president.
“We have unqualified and unequivocal confidence in the ANC caucus not to vote in support of a motion to remove the President,” the ANC’s parliamentary office said in a statement.
The statement follows a ruling by the Constitutional Court on Thursday morning in which Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng said that, after weighing up the issues relating to the upcoming motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma, the National Assembly does have the power to allow a secret ballot, but the court cannot order whether this should or should not happen.
“[The speaker has been directed] to make all the necessary arrangements to ensure a motion of no confidence is decided by secret ballot including designating a new date for the motion to be debated,” Mogoeng ruled in a unanimous judgment by all eight justices of the court.
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