Federal Council chairperson Helen Zille says she believes that it is possible for the DA to be the biggest political party after next year’s general election.
DA federal council chairperson, Helen Zille.
Federal Council chairperson Helen Zille says she believes that it’s possible for the Democratic Alliance to be the biggest political party after next year’s general election. She however conceded that she’d been in politics long enough to know that one party’s loss of membership is not an automatic gain for her party.
She was responding to statistics being bandied about regarding the decline of the governing African National Congress . Zille was speaking at the end of the first day of the Democratic Alliance’s Federal Congress, where she’s running unopposed-to retain her position. Voting for the new party leader will resume tomorrow. Delegates will choose between current leader and MP John Steenhuisen and former Johannesburg Mayor Dr Mpho Phalatse.“I’ve been in politics too long to be overconfident and I know that a week is a very long time in politics and a whole year to go to an election is an eternity.
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