Mncedi Ndzwanana, whose party has one seat in the council, garnered support from the ANC/EFF alliance and minority parties.
There was another disruption when Gauteng premier and ANC provincial chairperson Panyaza Lesufi arrived at the gallery to observe council proceedings. DA members could be heard saying: “The people of Gauteng are waiting for services but here you are interfering in our council business.” Lesufi did not respond to detractors and, instead, smiled and waved at visibly furious DA members.
After the conclusion of voting and Ndzwanana’s election as speaker, DA caucus leader Cilliers Brink said the party did not sign off on the results slip and would instead be consulting its lawyers on what legal action it could take to challenge Ndzwanana’s election. “The purpose of our different marker was clearly placed next to our preferred candidate. It was done for transparency purposes. The intention of the marker was not disregarded because it is against the spoilt ballot legislation, nobody could cite that. It was just disregarded as spoilt which means the candidate was not intentionally indicated.
“In this case electoral law allows us to place whatever mark within the confines of that little box — whether it is an initial, a circle, a number — as long as we don’t exceed that box the vote is valid. “What happened here is a serious irregularity and we will contest the outcome,” said Brink, as multiparty coalition members walked out of the meeting.
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