South Africa: Coalition talks set to start after ANC loses majority
South Africa's ruling ANC said Sunday (June 2) that it would enter talks with other parties to form a new government, after losing its three-decade-old absolute majority in a watershed election. With 99.91 percent of the votes from Wednesday's election counted, President Cyril Ramaphosa's African National Congress had only 40.2 percent, a catastrophic slump from the 57.5 percent it won in 2019. FRANCE 24's Douglas Herbert gives us his analysis.
South Africa's ruling ANC said Sunday (June 2) that it would enter talks with other parties to form a new government, after losing its three-decade-old absolute majority in a watershed election. With 99.91 percent of the votes from Wednesday's election counted, President Cyril Ramaphosa's African National Congress had only 40.2 percent, a catastrophic slump from the 57.5 percent it won in 2019. FRANCE 24's Douglas Herbert gives us his analysis.
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