South Africa’s nine provincial Premiers for the seventh administration were voted in by newly-inducted provincial legislature representatives between the 13th and 14th of June.
Ntuli received 41 votes, while the uMkhonto we Sizwe candidate, deputy prime minister of the Zulu Royal House Inkosi Phathisizwe Chiliza, garnered 39 votes.Tembe was elected with the support of the IFP, ANC, DA and National Freedom Party – all of which are in a coalition for the province’s seventh administration.for the GNU parters, with MK and Economic Freedom Fighters making up 39 out of the 80 seats in the legislature.
Although the ANC failed to win an outright majority in the general election, with 49.34% of the vote and taking 15 of the 30 provincial legislature seats, the Freedom Front Plus and the Patriotic Alliance , which has three seats in the legislature supported Saul to be Premier. The ANC, which received 62.16% of the votes in the province, were able to smoothly get their candidates through the legislature’s first sitting.ANC’s Helen Sauls-August was re-elected as speaker of the Eastern Cape legislature.ANC’s deputy North West chairperson Lazarus Mokgosi, was elected as the Premier of the province at the legislature’s first sitting on June 14th.
Given the party’s outright majority in the province , the ANCs candidates were able to get their way through with relative ease, with
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