Cape Town — ActionSA announced it will be leaving the opposition pact group, the Multi-Party Charter (MPC) after it conducted a review of its election campaign, but will not betray the people of Tshwane.
In an an ActionSA statement, the party’s senate deliberated on the relationship with other political parties and made the decision to leave the MPC due to a breach by parties who signed an agreement to rule out working with the ANC.
“ActionSA has assessed a potential Parliament in which the opposition forms a coalition with the ANC and determined that ActionSA is going to have to be the unofficial opposition in Parliament.” Michael Beaumont, ActionSA National Chairperson, said.
Beaumont said that ActionSA would continue to be an alternative to the ANC and will not entertain working with the party at any level of government. The party decided it will remain in Tshwane and would leave the current configuration should the politics of the day return the ANC to power, TimesLIVE reported.
“We are not going to punish the residents of Tshwane because of what other political parties have done. When we enter arrangements, we enter them for the people and not for other political parties. If the DA is going to do a deal with the ANC, and the deal will extend across all tiers of government, then we invite the DA to replace us with the ANC because we will not in good conscience be involved in any coalition that involves the ANC.” Beaumont said.
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The party said it will remain as constructive opposition in the National Assembly and the three legislatures and said, if sound and ethical proposals are served to represent the people of South Africa, the party will support them.
The party has begun it’s process to position itself as ahead of the local government elections in 2026 and the Senate has prepared to contend that most South Africans suffer due to municipal failures that leave them without water, unreliable electricity and submerged in sewage.
“ActionSA and its leaders are more committed than ever before to building a political alternative to the party that has created the crisis under which South Africans suffer – even more so when we may stand alone in doing so.” he concluded.
ActionSA announced that party leader, Herman Mashaba, along with Beaumont, would step back from Parliament to allow for a team that will punch above its weight and serve South Africans like a much larger team.
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Compiled by Matthew Petersen
