A panicky ANC has read the riot act to its MPs in the National Assembly to toe the party line in the upcoming vote of no-confidence debate against President Jacob Zuma or face the consequences.
The Daily Dispatch has learnt that the governing party in the Eastern Cape has contacted its deployees in parliament‚ warning them against siding with the opposition.
ANC provincial secretary Oscar Mabuyane confirmed they had issued reminders to Eastern Cape-based MPs to vote “correctly” on the date – still to be determined pending a decision of the Constitutional Court.
“What we are saying is that all ANC deployees will have to vote in support of the President when they have to vote on the matter in parliament‚ no matter how hard people feel about the President.
“We will never understand any ANC deployee who chooses to vote in support of the opposition‚” Mabuyane said.
“We are experiencing problems within the ANC and all of us are equally not happy about what is going on in the ANC but ANC matters must be attended to within the ANC structures.”
The ANC’s crackdown on its MPs comes after the UDM‚ on April 10‚ filed papers with the Constitutional Court asking it to rule that the upcoming vote of no-confidence against Zuma be conducted by way of a secret ballot.
Eastern Cape MPs warned to 'vote correctly' in vote of no-confidence against Zuma
A panicky ANC has read the riot act to its MPs in the National Assembly to toe the party line in the upcoming vote of no-confidence debate against President Jacob Zuma or face the consequences.
The Daily Dispatch has learnt that the governing party in the Eastern Cape has contacted its deployees in parliament‚ warning them against siding with the opposition.
ANC provincial secretary Oscar Mabuyane confirmed they had issued reminders to Eastern Cape-based MPs to vote “correctly” on the date – still to be determined pending a decision of the Constitutional Court.
“What we are saying is that all ANC deployees will have to vote in support of the President when they have to vote on the matter in parliament‚ no matter how hard people feel about the President.
“We will never understand any ANC deployee who chooses to vote in support of the opposition‚” Mabuyane said.
“We are experiencing problems within the ANC and all of us are equally not happy about what is going on in the ANC but ANC matters must be attended to within the ANC structures.”
The ANC’s crackdown on its MPs comes after the UDM‚ on April 10‚ filed papers with the Constitutional Court asking it to rule that the upcoming vote of no-confidence against Zuma be conducted by way of a secret ballot.
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