South African lawmakers reelect President Cyril Ramaphosa after his African National Congress party made a coalition deal with its main opposition.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was reelected by lawmakers for a second term on Friday after his African National Congress party struck a dramatic late coalition deal with the main opposition and other parties. Ramaphosa won convincingly in a Parliament vote against surprise nominee Julius Malema, the leader of the far-left Economic Freedom Fighters. Ramaphosa got 283 votes to Malema's 44 in the 400-member house.
” The agreement was necessary after the ANC lost its 30-year majority in a humbling national election for it last month. It was a turning point for Africa’s most industrialized economy. The ANC is the party of Nelson Mandela and had governed with a comfortable majority since the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule in 1994.
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