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President Cyril Ramaphosa and senior party officials were in a critical meeting in Johannesburg to decide how to go about forming a government. The party representatives already held constructive discussions with several parties. Economic Freedom Fighters, Inkatha Freedom Party, the Democratic Alliance, the National Freedom Party, and the Patriotic Alliance
There is a talk about the Unity Government in South Africa. ANC officials say it is the first option on the table after the party lost its parliamentary majority.
President Cyril Ramaphosa and senior party officials were in a critical meeting in Johannesburg to decide how to go about forming a government. The party representatives already held constructive discussions with several parties. Economic Freedom Fighters, the Inkatha Freedom Party, the Democratic Alliance, the National Freedom Party, and the Patriotic Alliance.
Any unity government plan would still have to be taken to those other parties, some of whom are more opposed to each other than ANC. The Democratic Alliance (DA) has pledged never to work with EFF or MK.
Ramaphosa who seeks a second and final term acknowledged the challenges lying ahead, particularly the ideological and political differences with several parties in the political landscape. However, representatives of the ANC said that in the public interest, it has to make compromises. More than 50 parties contested the election with at least eight of them receiving significant shares of support.
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