IFP not 'desperate' to enter coalitions, will decide what's in 'best interests of SAns'
The party says it is happy to continue holding the government accountable from the opposition benches rather than get into bed with parties not aligned to its values.
Inkatha Freedom Party's Velenkosini Hlabisa at the National Results Operations Centre in Midrand on 1 June 2024. Picture: Jacques Nelles / Eyewitness News
MIDRAND - The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) says it is not desperate to go into coalition governments for the sake of it.
The party said it was happy to continue holding the government accountable from the opposition benches rather than get into bed with parties not aligned to its values.
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With the moonshot pact effectively dead due to poor perfomances from the majority of the parties who signed the agreement, the IFP is not ruling out anything at this point.
The IFP remains one of the few established parties that have not been severely negatively impacted by the emergence of Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party.
With less than three percent of voting districts left, the IFP has already bettered its perfomance from 2019.
"The IFP will make an informed decision in the best interests of the people of South Africa, whether in KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng or nationally but we are not desperate to get into a coalition for the sake of coalition," said party president Velenkosini Hlabisa.
"We will definitely get into a coalition that will work for the people of South Africa."
Hlabisa has also called on the IEC to speedily resolve the disputes many parties have over the election results.
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