National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula declined requests to reconsider her decision not to allow the secret ballot to be used as a voting procedure on the report. Click here for the full report📱
Members of Parliament will not be voting in secret on Tuesday when they decide whether to adopt the Section 89 panel’s report on President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala dealings.
This will effectively mean the end of the process should every single member, all 230 of them, should they be available to participate in the debate and vote in line with the instruction from the ANC.Leaders of the African Transformation Movement , the African Christian Democratic Party , the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania , the African Independent Congress and the United Democratic Movement wrote to the Speaker requesting her to reconsider her decision to decline a secret ballot.
Mothapo said Mapisa-Nqakula had a constitutional responsibility to consider all prevailing factors in exercising her discretion to determine the appropriate voting mechanism. “The Speaker said the parliamentary environment is always a highly politicised space and can never be entirely free of political tensions, either between or even within parties,” Mothapo said.According to Mothapo, Mapisa-Nqakula said she does not believe that the atmosphere is so generally toxified or so highly charged that MP’s “would be prevented from exercising their vote on this question in accordance with their conscience using an open voting procedure.
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