Zuma’s boycott of election results forces ANC to consider coalition with Malema

The final tally gave Ramaphosa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) 159 seats in the 400-seat National Assembly, its lowest score in a general election.

The vote share of the party, which Nelson Mandela led into the first post-apartheid government, slumped to just over 40 percent from the 57 percent it had won in 2019.

The new parliament has to meet within two weeks. Its first task will be to elect a president to form a new government.

With no outright winner for the first time since the advent of South Africa’s post-apartheid democracy, the ANC will first need to seek outside support to secure Ramaphosa’s re-election.

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