Parliamentary scrutiny and legislative debate play a crucial role in ensuring coalitions' accountability. Moneyweb Politcs HeidiBrooks
South Africa’s municipal government elections in 2021 produced a number of largely unstable local government coalitions. There’s now a strong possibility that the next government that’s formed at national level may be a coalition too. This would be the first since the dawn of democracy in 1994. Elections due in 2024 will test the extent of the declining dominance of the governing African National Congress.
Japan and Malaysia have experienced periods of “coalition dominance”. This has involved a stable coalition of parties maintaining power for a prolonged period. South Africa’s coalitions at local government level, in which smaller parties have increasingly become kingmakers, have been fractious alliances lacking programmatic alignment. It is difficult to see how this would differ at the national level.
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