'But if the ANC got 45% and above, it could emerge as a leader in a coalition with the smaller parties,' one analyst said.
Former opposition leader Tony Leon joins the Democratic Alliance's premier candidate for Gauteng Solly Msimanga, on an anti-corruption march in Johannesburg, 24 April 2019. Picture: Nokuthula Mbatha / African News Agency
The experts say even with assistance from founding leader Tony Leon, the party wouldn’t be able to win the province alone and had to align itself with other parties to outnumber the ANC. Both the DA and the ANC this week deployed their former leaders in the province to outdo each other at the stakes. Analyst Ralph Mathekga said the significance of the Gauteng situation was not the DA winning, but the ANC losing.
Both Susan Booysen, research director at Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection, and Unisa’s professor of politics, Dirk Kotze, maintained the Leon campaign was meant to revive old white voter support.
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