EFF “votes” for DA in Joburg
JOBURG – EFF announces it will "vote for DA, but not form coalition with DA" in the City of Johannesburg.
The EFF has today announced that it will not form coalitions with any party but will vote with the DA in the City of Johannesburg, and other metros in South Africa.
“We will vote with them if they meet conditions that are between us,” the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema said.
Malema made the announcement in Alexandra today where he emphasised the party is not “in bed” with any of the parties and will instead be an opposition party after the 2016 municipal elections.
In the City, the ANC won 121 seats, the DA, 104 seats, the EFF, 30 seats and the smaller parties, collectively, hold 15 seats.
Dr Liela Groenewald, senior lecturer at the University of Johannesburg’s (UJ’s) Department of Sociology, said a political party needs 50 percent plus one seat in council, that is 136 seats in the City, to be able to elect an executive mayor and a speaker.
Malema said the party had to decide between “two devils, and we had to choose the better one”. He also said that the EFF is not “after any positions,” and will only step into mayoral or speaker positions in council of they are elected by a majority vote.
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