The Democratic Alliance (DA) is set to converge with other political parties in a landmark multiparty convention this week.
DA leader John Steenhuisen told the media that the convention will establish a multi-party pact that will be an alternative government to the African National Congress (ANC).
“The possibility is that you may have party leaders joining the moonshot pact while the members or supporters are not interested in the movement,” he said.
Political analyst Ndou said that the DA should be careful of inviting parties that were dying into the pact. “If you invite a party that has two or three seats, what impact will that party make in the pact?” Another political analyst, Dirk Kotze said the idea was not for parties to form one party, but a cooperation-based understanding that the parties wanted to develop.
“Parties will still maintain their independence and their identity. What they are doing is cooperating to talk about the possibility of a coalition after the election,” Kotze said.
He said it was going to be difficult to predict whether the pact would be able to defeat the ANC as it was not going to depend on what the pact does but on what the ANC does.
Some of the parties have also accused the DA of misleading them and keeping a door open for the possibility of both the ANC and DA working together to form a coalition next year.
Some of the DA’s partners have told it that it needed to publicly declare it will not form any coalition with the ANC after the elections.
Source: https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/multi-party-convention-crucial-development-in-sa-politics-since-democracy-steenhuisen/
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