OPINION: What the difference between 60% and 55% of the vote will mean for Ramaphosa | MelanieVerwoerd
While it is not easy to oust a sitting ANC president outside of the party's national conference held every five years, it is possible. The question is: Can the Zuma-ites do it, asksI wrote about the difficulty President Cyril Ramaphosa could face in a post-election Parliament. But Parliament is not the only difficulty that he could potentially face – especially if the ANC does not secure a large majority at the polls.
The ANC holds a national general council no later than 30 months after the national conference. The NGC does not involve any elections although the conference can fill vacancies in the national executive committee , provided that such vacancies do not exceed 50% of the NEC. Whatever the case may be, the ANC constitution does allow for the"evaluation of members of the NEC" which of course includes Ramaphosa. Herein lies the real danger.
So even though the NGC would almost certainly not allow the removal of Ramaphosa, a negative evaluation of his performance might just be the trigger for five provinces to ask for a special/early general conference with the intention of passing a vote of no-confidence in him and thus recalling him.
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