Behind the scenes: municipalities face a rocky five years: No clear winners after weeks of jostling for 160 hung municipalities
For two weeks political parties jostled in meetings to decide who would run the 160 hung municipalities. There were no clear winners then and after this week it seems parties are unsure who exactly has the power at this point.
Although various coalitions have been formed across the country, many of them are hanging by a thread, with the slightest provocation meaning the newly elected city governments could collapse before May next year.Subscribe to the M&G today for just
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