After 30 years in power, the African National Congress must engage in tricky coalition talks with its rivals
South African political parties are jostling for position in a future coalition government, after the African National Congress lost its parliamentary majority for the first time in 30 years with almost all votes counted.
With more than 99% of voting stations counted on Saturday afternoon, the ANC had just 40.3% of the vote – a collapse of more than 17 percentage points from the 2019 national elections. The pro-business Democratic Alliance (DA) was on 21.7%, while uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), launched only in December by the country’s former president Jacob Zuma, surprised with 14.6%.
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