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Historic South African Election Dethrones Ruling Party ANC (unicornriot.ninja)

submitted 4 months ago by solo to c/pleasantpolitics

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[–] MrMakabar 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Why a 10 party coalition? DA and ANC have 62% of the vote already, so that would be enough right?

[–] poVoq 2 points 4 months ago

They are branding it as a government of national unity. So my guess would be that they needed additional parties on board to make this somewhat credible.

[–] notaviking@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

You have to ask them, what was agreed and what we have. We will see how it holds up