Members of Parliament from the Economic Freedom Fighters and Congress of the People walked out of the National Assembly on Tuesday as part of their quest to pressure President Jacob Zuma into resigning.

Zuma was in the National Assembly to answer questions from MPs.

On Monday‚ the EFF had written a letter to National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete demanding that she must urgently prevent Zuma from answering questions in the National Assembly on Tuesday because he had lost the constitutional right to respond to anything as a president of South Africa.

“The EFF has on several occasions written to you to request that disciplinary proceedings should be instituted against Mr. Zuma because the Constitutional Court has unanimously ruled that in his defiance of the remedial actions of Public Protector‚ Mr. Zuma has failed to uphold‚ defend and respect the Constitution as the supreme law of the land‚” the letter read.

Answering the Cope’s Willie Madisha‚ Mbete said the National Assembly had a debate relating to the Constitutional Court judgment.

“I appeal to you to take your seat so that we can proceed with the programme of the afternoon with the president‚” she said.

EFF leader Julius Malema said the Speaker allowed the president to continue addressing the house without consequences.

“This house only allows honourable people to speak here. We are not allowing a criminal to speak to this house‚” Malema said.

ANC Chief Whip Jackson Mthembu said the president was not in the house to be ridiculed.

Mbete maintained that the business before the house was questions before the president that he needed to answer.

“We will not deal with any business here this afternoon other than questions to the president‚” she said.

Following her order ejecting EFF MP Floyd Shivambu from the house‚ Malema told Mbete that the party was leaving.

“We will leave because we are not prepared to listen to this criminal. We will come back when the criminal is gone‚” Malema said.