Party leaders and members expressed mixed reactions after the decision was communicated to provincial and local leaders to allow them to prepare for the virtual national congress.
Johannesburg - The decision by the DA’s Federal Council to hold its national elective congress virtually in October is likely to be opposed by the majority of its black members, who have indicated that they lack internet connectivity.
She added that they would submit a proposal for scrutiny and ratification at the party’s online Federal Council meeting in July. “It will favour John Steenhuisen. He is already the face of the party during the lockdown and in other public platforms. He has captured the party’s communication machinery,” one of the insiders said.
Disgruntled parties want to lobby their provincial leaders to raise objections to the proposed elective congress date. They are complaining that the lockdown is hampering processes to hold regional and branch meetings, which are meant to elect delegates for the congress.
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