South African President Cyril Ramaphosa won a majority of the votes of the ruling branches of the African National Congress ahead of the party’s elective convention in December, pushing his bid to secure a momentary five-year term as state president.
The ANC on Tuesday released the final list of nominees for its top six positions, adding president, vice president and secretary general, for its difficult National Executive Committee (NEC) ahead of the national convention to be held Dec. 16-20. .
Whoever emerges as party president would be president of the state, if the ANC wins the majority in the general elections scheduled for 2024.
The ANC said 3,543 out of a total of 3,982 branches in smart state held meetings with their six most sensible candidates.
Ramaphosa, who replaced his predecessor Jacob Zuma as state president in 2018 by pledging to defeat the state’s endemic corruption, received 2,037 votes from branches but still faces designated challenges on the ground, officials said.
“As you know, at the conference, delegates will have the opportunity to nominate from the FloorArray. . . of course, any candidate with 25% of the voting delegates will be included on the ballot,” said Kgalema Motlanthe, the ANC’s chief electoral officer. . said at a press conference.
According to the ANC, Ramaphosa comfortably defeated Zweli Mkhize, the former fitness minister who resigned after being implicated in corruption allegations similar to the department’s investigations into the Covid-19 pandemic. Mkhize has denied wrongdoing.
A union leader-turned-businessman, Ramaphosa, is widely recognized as the ANC’s most productive possibility for its functioning in the 2024 general election and halting the decline in electoral aid that fell below 50% in last year’s municipal elections for the first time from the South. Africa. First democratic elections in 1994.
(Reporting via Wendell Roelf; Editing by Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo Editing by Tomasz Janowski)