DA dismisses coalition agreements reached

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The DA on Tuesday dismissed ANC-inspired rumours that coalition agreements have been reached, including Luthuli House’s "desperate spin" that the DA was horse-trading control of metros.

“These are the last kicks of a dying horse, desperate to cling onto power using misinformation,” said James Selfe, the chair of the DA’s Federal Executive.

Selfe said the DA would continue with its negotiations in earnest with the clear objective of putting together governments that give effect to the majority of the electorates’ rejection of the ANC and its management of local government.

“This requires establishing workable, well-governed municipalities and metros that are able to create jobs, deliver better services and bring years of corruption to a complete stop,” Selfe said.

He said the DA-led governments would do make use of the pool of skills and talent that already exist in many of the existing administrations.

Positions would not be awarded on the basis of political allegiances in DA-run towns and cities.

He said the electorate has given parties a clear mandate to form a government and the DA would continue with all negotiations in the spirit of this mandate.

News24 - http://www.news24.com/Elections/News/da-dismisses-coalition-agreements-reached-20160809

 

[TofuMofu]

Am I right in assuming the DA will have the mayor in place whether the ANC and EFF have a coalition or not?

Coalition basically just gives them more room to make and deny by-laws and decisions?

 

[supersunbird]

Am I right in assuming the DA will have the mayor in place whether the ANC and EFF have a coalition or not?

Coalition basically just gives them more room to make and deny by-laws and decisions?

If the ANC + EFF coalesce in Tshwane, there is nothing the DA can do, and it would be a mayor of the ANC + EFFs choosing.

 

[AstroTurf]

I wonder if the "do not vote for smaller parties" sms's are going to hurt da here.

 

[Hamish McPanji]

Yeah, they must have voted for EFF instead of the party that closely matched their interests because that vote doesn't matter apparently

 

[TofuMofu]

If the ANC + EFF coalesce in Tshwane, there is nothing the DA can do, and it would be a mayor of the ANC + EFFs choosing.

Dammit...that will piss of A LOT of people.

 

[Pitbull]

If the EFF want's any chance or running a municipality it will have to do a coalition with the DA.

The EFF will need the DA to get Rustenburg.

 

[Gaz{M}]

Yeah, through the election hype, nobody seemed to realise that if you get less than 50%, even if you get the most votes, you can still be out governed by a minority coalition. Effectively, the DA didn't win anything, they just have the closest amount of votes to 50%. Which means very little if the rest gang up on them.

I *hope* that everybody hates the ANC enough to not consider this.

 

[Garson007]

If the EFF want's any chance or running a municipality it will have to do a coalition with the DA.

The EFF will need the everyone but ANC to get Rustenburg.

Fixed. A non-ANC EFF-coalition isn't going to win Rustenburg.

 

[f2wohf]

Fixed. A non-ANC EFF-coalition isn't going to win Rustenburg.

They'll need all the opposition parties roughly except the ones under 0.3%, that would make a coalition of 8 parties.

The ANC is way more likely to win, they just need like 3 small parties.

 

[Pitbull]

Fixed. A non-ANC EFF-coalition isn't going to win Rustenburg.

Agree, but this is the back bone of the negotiations. I can promise you that

 

[Garson007]

They'll need all the opposition parties roughly except the ones under 0.3%, that would make a coalition of 8 parties.

The ANC is way more likely to win, they just need like 3 small parties.

Why are you still talking about percentages? The seats have already been awarded. The ANC needs two seats for a majority. AIC will give one of them. And EFF-led coalition would require UDM, DA, FF+ (lol), F4SD and BCM to agree to a coalition.

 

[f2wohf]

Why are you still talking about percentages? The seats have already been awarded. The ANC needs two seats for a majority. AIC will give one of them. And EFF-led coalition would require UDM, DA, FF+ (lol), F4SD and BCM to agree to a coalition.

Sorry, I wasn't finding a good article with the seats allocation so far. The only one I had was awarding 6 seats to EFF which didn't make sense !

 

[bekdik]

Am I right in assuming the DA will have the mayor in place whether the ANC and EFF have a coalition or not?

Coalition basically just gives them more room to make and deny by-laws and decisions?

If there is no coalition, then the largest party can appoint a mayor and they can rule with a minority government. Of course under these circumstances their vote can be defeated by a larger number of votes.