WC - Coallition Likely

[Lycanthrope]

Pretoria - It still looks as though the DA will form the government in the Western Cape with either just above or just below 50% of the popular vote, but the belief among the DA brass is that even if they have enough seats in the legislature to rule on their own, Helen Zille, the leader, will invite both Cope and the ID to join them in government.

"It is part of a grand plan," said a senior official, who would not be identified because, he said, it would be up to Zille herself to make such statements.

Whatever happens, the party will not invite the disgraced anti-apartheid cleric Allan Boesak to join the provincial cabinet.

If the DA gets fewer than half of the seats in the legislature Cope might to try to insist on his name being included, but Zille will have the luxury of not accepting him, and if Cope makes it a condition of their joining, then the government will have to do without them.

Patricia de Lille, the leader of the ID, has already made it plain that she wanted to be premier or nothing, so she will resume her seat in the National Assembly and another ID figure will be invited.

The grand plan that is in the minds of the top DA figures involves a much greater consolidation of the opposition. Merging the parties is not wholly out of the question they say, though it is as yet only on the far reaches of an imagined future.

Source: News24

Personally, I'm happy about the stance the DA will take in regards to Boesak. Keep him out of government, especially in our province.

 

[R13...]

Yeah, they better get cracking on that then.
I will bet my house, the ANC will do anything to keep them from governing the province.
So getting COPE & ID early would be key, I do doubt COPE's ability to be principled, but we'll wait & see.

 

[DigitalSoldier]

Yeah, they better get cracking on that then.
I will bet my house, the ANC will do anything to keep them from governing the province.
So getting COPE & ID early would be key, I do doubt COPE's ability to be principled, but we'll wait & see.

According to the ANC they don't want to rule the Western Cape with a coalition government. But like everything else the ANC say, take it with a pinch of salt.

The party has been trying to stay in power by making deals and nibbling away at other parties' memberships. "This was no way to build a successful party," he said. "It doesn't build strength.

Back to the drawing board

"If we had got closer to the DA figure, we would have being trying to put another coalition together, but now we are forced to go back to the drawing board, to go back to the grassroots, to build our organisation in the traditional way, and to heal it."

It might take five years, he warned; it might take more. But however long it takes, the ANC will emerge stronger and better for it.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Elections/News/0,,2-2478-2479_2505793,00.html

 

[theratman]

As I have said before you can love the DA as much as you like but they will jump into bed will the other smaller parties...Not that thats a bad thing but they should let people know what their intentions are before the election.

 

[R13...]

Remember the ANC cannot afford
to have the DA do a good job in the WC as that would
threaten they hold on other middle-class dominated provinces like
say GP. They will derail anything the DA does even to the detriment of "our people" just to ensure the DA doesn't score too many brownie points with voters in other places.

The DA best chance at governing is taking provinces one by one, and they will work to ensure WC works. Good for them I say, the ANC have gotten too arrogant about incompetence.

 

[zeridine]

it actually sounds like a good thing? DA/COPE/ID coalition will kick the anc in the nads.

 

[dj_jyno]

The DA best chance at governing is taking provinces one by one

Actually, that was the plan from the start, moving up from city level, to provincial and finally national.

it actually sounds like a good thing? DA/COPE/ID coalition will kick the anc in the nads.

It is a very good thing, since it will bring the opposition parties together and collectively strengthen them.

 

[TonyHawk]

I only see good things to come from this... primarily ANC out... but watch out for that amendment in the cabinet drawer... seizing control of all province