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Ramaphosa will face the first vote of no confidence in his leadership in the National Assembly next Thursday.
National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise delivers her speech during Parliament’s budget vote on July 16, 2019. Image: @ ParliamentofRSA / Twitter.
CAPE TOWN – National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise on Thursday rejected a request from the African Transformation Movement (ATM) party to vote its motion of no confidence on President Cyril Ramaphosa to be held by secret ballot.
Ramaphosa will face the first vote of no confidence in his leadership in the National Assembly next Thursday.
The ATM offer, which has only two members of Parliament, is unlikely to succeed, but it will give the president’s detractors a chance to voice their opinion.
Modise ruled out a secret ballot for next week’s vote, after discovering that the ATM had offered no evidence that there was any reason to do so, such as intimidation of MPs.
In a statement, Parliament noted that the Constitutional Court had previously indicated that a secret ballot would only be necessary in a highly charged or toxic atmosphere.
Therefore, the vote of no confidence will be debated during a hybrid session of the House and will be voted in an open vote, which means that there will be a public record of how each deputy has cast their vote.
The ATM has cited at least 15 reasons why Ramaphosa is unfit to lead, ranging from his inability to identify the funders of his African National Congress presidential campaign (which the president says is not in his power) to his alleged failure to secure the country’s borders and stop the entry of undocumented immigrants.
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