The Democratic Alliance (DA) is confident it will win at least one metro if all registered voters turn out to cast their ballots in the local government election‚ said the party’s federal executive chairman James Selfe.
“We are in the process of bringing every available DA supporter to vote for the DA and if all those voters come out‚ then we are confident that we will become the government in at least one of those metros with an outright majority‚” Selfe said.
Speaking at the Electoral Commission of SA‘s (IEC’s) operations centre in Tshwane on Wednesday‚ Selfe said he was not impressed with reports of problems at some voting stations.
“There have been reports of presiding officers who didn’t arrive at all due to an accident. I also got a report of intimidation and bad delimitations‚ where a new ward was formed and people were told they weren’t registered‚” he said.
However‚ he acknowledged that these sorts of hiccups were not new and happened during every election.
“The skill is to try and rectify those things as quickly as possible and we are working very closely with the IEC to make sure that it happens‚” he said.
Selfe said any coalitions with opposition parties would be determined by the results of the election and that the DA could not commit before the results were announced.
Quoting DA leader Mmusi Maimane‚ Selfe said: “You don’t start talking about penalty shootouts whilst the game is still on.”
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DA predicts a win in ‘at least one metro’
The Democratic Alliance (DA) is confident it will win at least one metro if all registered voters turn out to cast their ballots in the local government election‚ said the party’s federal executive chairman James Selfe.
“We are in the process of bringing every available DA supporter to vote for the DA and if all those voters come out‚ then we are confident that we will become the government in at least one of those metros with an outright majority‚” Selfe said.
Speaking at the Electoral Commission of SA‘s (IEC’s) operations centre in Tshwane on Wednesday‚ Selfe said he was not impressed with reports of problems at some voting stations.
“There have been reports of presiding officers who didn’t arrive at all due to an accident. I also got a report of intimidation and bad delimitations‚ where a new ward was formed and people were told they weren’t registered‚” he said.
However‚ he acknowledged that these sorts of hiccups were not new and happened during every election.
“The skill is to try and rectify those things as quickly as possible and we are working very closely with the IEC to make sure that it happens‚” he said.
Selfe said any coalitions with opposition parties would be determined by the results of the election and that the DA could not commit before the results were announced.
Quoting DA leader Mmusi Maimane‚ Selfe said: “You don’t start talking about penalty shootouts whilst the game is still on.”
Live results, cool maps, fierce battlegrounds: follow the local elections on our web app:http://bit.ly/2apwZKU
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