CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA – SEPTEMBER 2: President Jacob Zuma responds to a question during an interview in Cape Town.
ANC says it’ll crush motion of no confidence regardless of ConCourt ruling
Whether by secret ballot of not, the ANC’s parliamentary caucus will protect Jacob Zuma.
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA – SEPTEMBER 2: President Jacob Zuma responds to a question during an interview in Cape Town.
On Thursday the Constitutional Court set aside speaker of parliament Baleka Mbete’s statement that it is not within her powers to call for a secret ballot in a vote of no confidence in the president; essentially putting the ball in Mbete’s court as to how the inevitable vote will be cast by MPs in the National Assembly.
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The ANc’s response, as you would imagine, was a dismissive one at best, after the party released a statement making it clear that Zuma will be protected, regardless of the type of vote.
“We reiterate our long stated position that we will not support the motion of no confidence on President Jacob Zuma by opposition parties. We will defeat this motion of no confidence by the opposition as we have successfully done so in the previous 4 motions tabled in this 5th term of Parliament,” the party said in a statement.
ANC members of old, former presidents and even some caucus members have publicly decried the party’s blind and arguably immoral insistence on closing ranks around Jacob Zuma every time his tenure is threatened; and each time the party has lost a little more of its credibility in the eyes of the voting public.
Thursday will also see el presidente make an appearance in the National Assembly for one of his 4 quarterly presidential Q&A’s with MPs.
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ANC chief whip Jackson Mthembu made the party’s position pretty clear, in an interview with eNCA shortly after the ConCourt ruling:
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