South Africa municipal elections: big cities change hands, coalitions ahead
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Business Day (South Africa)
The results of South Africa's municipal elections point to a political realignment in the country's major cities, where several majorities are changing hands. These results could redefine the governance of several large cities and open a new round of coalition negotiations, according to Business Day TV.
South Africa's municipal elections are shaping a notable change in the political landscape of the country's major cities, where several shifts in majority open the way to a new round of coalition negotiations, Business Day reports, cited by its editor-in-chief.
The editor-in-chief of the business daily, Luke Feltham, presented these developments in an interview with Business Day TV, stressing that the results could change the governance of some of South Africa's largest cities. Talks between parties should therefore resume in the cities where no party wins a majority on its own.
This realignment comes as parties have already begun their negotiations: the ANC announced on 2 November that it was entrusting coalition negotiations to its national executive committee, while coalitions are taking shape in four South African cities. The Patriotic Alliance for its part said on 6 November that it preferred the FF+ and ActionSA for these alliances, after ActionSA claimed 38 ANC wards in Gauteng on 5 November.
