Six opposition parties announced they will discuss forming an alliance for South Africa's national election next year in an attempt to end the 30-year hold on power of the African National Congress.
FILE - Main opposition leader of the Democratic Alliance John Steenhuisen addresses a special sitting of parliament in Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022. Six opposition parties announced Tuesday, July 4, 2023, they will discuss forming an alliance for South Africa's national election next year in an attempt to end the 30-year hold on power of the African National Congress. next year in an attempt to end the 30-year hold on power of the African National Congress.
The parties “came to the inescapable conclusion that forming a united opposition pact ahead of the 2024 election offers us the very best chance to unseat the ANC ... and form an alternative that will provide a stable new government to rescue South Africa,” John Steenhuisen, leader of the Democratic Alliance, the second biggest party in Parliament after the ANC, said in a televised address.
The ANC has won every national election in South Africa since former leader Nelson Mandela was elected president in the first all-race elections that ended the apartheid system of white minority rule in 1994. The ANC's popularity is waning, with its vote dropping to less than 50% in local elections two years ago. But even Steenhuisen noted in his speech that the six opposition parties together won only around 35% of the vote in the 2021 local elections in 2021.
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