South Africa’s ANC on track for new lows in local polls

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O ANC estava em cerca de 32% dos votos, com a Democratic Alliance (DA) em segundo lugar com 25%, depois que mais de 60% dos votos foram contabilizados nas eleições municipais desta semana, dados da comissão eleitoral mostraram no final de quinta-feira.

Meanwhile, former President Jacob Zuma’s breakaway opposition uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party was in third place with 8. 5 percent, below levels suggested by opinion polls.

About 15. 9 million of 29. 2 million registered voters cast ballots, the electoral commission said, putting turnout at an estimated 54. 5 percent, up from 46 percent in the pandemic-hit 2021 local elections.

The ANC, which has been South Africa’s largest party since it led the country out of apartheid in 1994, has tended to do worse in municipal elections than nationally and has acknowledged its failures in local governance.

Do quase 70% do voto nacional em 2004, o ANC caiu abaixo de 50% pela primeira vez nas eleições municipais de 2021, obtendo 46%.

At the 2024 national elections, it managed just more than 40 percent and was forced to accept a unity government with nine other parties, including the DA.

The party, now led by President Cyril Ramaphosa, has borne the brunt of criticism about years of municipal mismanagement that have left South Africans grappling with failing water supplies, persistent power cuts and crumbling public services.

It has also faced corruption allegations, while splinter parties have eaten away at its support base.

Os resultados da votação local desta semana oferecerão uma medida chave do sentimento dos eleitores antes das eleições gerais de 2029.

Control of the country’s eight major metropolitan municipalities is up for grabs, alongside dozens of district and local councils.

O partido MK havia sido apontado como um dos poucos partidos capazes de garantir maioria absoluta na cidade portuária leste de Durban.

But projections by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), a state-funded research body, put its support there at 32 percent.

The DA, meanwhile, was forecast to retain control of tourist magnet Cape Town with 56 percent of the vote, with its leader, Geordin Hill-Lewis, already declaring victory.

The party was also leading with 34 percent in Johannesburg, the country’s financial capital, after running a spirited campaign spearheaded by its former leader, Helen Zille, 75, according to CSIR projections.

With outright majorities far from assured in several major cities, the results could usher in another round of complex coalition negotiations, with parties bargaining to assemble the alliances needed to govern.

Final results are expected on Sunday.

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