South Africa’s ruling ANC on Sunday said it will enter talks with other parties to form a new government, after losing its three-decade-old absolute majority in a watershed election.
With 99.91 percent of the votes from Wednesday’s election counted, President Cyril Ramaphosa‘s African National Congress had only 40.2 percent, a catastrophic slump from the 57.5 percent it won in 2019.
“The ANC is committed to the formation of a government that reflects the will of the people, that is stable and that is able to govern effectively,” ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula told a press conference.
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The party must negotiate a coalition government or at least persuade others to back Ramaphosa’s re-election in parliament to allow him to form a minority administration.
Mbalula said the ANC will hold discussions internally and with other groups “over the next few days”.
“The results send a clear message to the ANC,” Mbalula said.
But some parties have alleged discrepancies in the vote count.
But Mbalula said that was “a no-go area”.
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