2019 ELECTIONS: Western Cape: After a safe 59% win five years ago, DA now feels the pressure

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2019 ELECTIONS: Western Cape: After a safe 59% win five years ago, DA now feels the pressure By Jonah Dylan

With less than a week until South Africans head to the polls on 8 May, the Western Cape looks to be one of the key battleground areas in the country. A recent poll projected the DA would earn less than 50% of the vote, but DA Western Cape leader Bonginkosi Madikizela toldIn the Western Cape I can assure you that the DA will get an outright majority,” he said. “We will certainly make sure that all the DA voters go out and certainly get more than 51%.

GOOD — a new party formed by former Cape Town Mayor and DA member Patricia de Lille — could act as a disruptor and potential kingmaker in the Western Cape. De Lille is currently locked in a legal battle with the DA regarding her departure from the party, and would be unlikely to work with them. De Lille toldWe have been asking people to please lend us their vote, just for five years,” she said.

Christians said he does not believe the numbers in recent polls, and said the ACDP is “not even thinking” about potential coalitions because it expects to win a majority.The ACDP supporters over all these years have never said that ‘we will vote ACDP,’” he said. “That’s why I believe most of our people that are going to vote ACDP that voted ANC and DA before, they will not say who they’re gonna vote for.

 

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