The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in Mpumalanga has declared that it won’t be part of a coalition government in the 14 hung municipalities that involves the Democratic Alliance (DA) and Freedom Front Plus.
The EFF says its engagements to govern in these municipalities have begun but are excluding the DA and FF Plus.
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EFF provincial chairperson Collen Sedibe says they cannot govern with political parties that stand against the interest of the poor.
“We are correctly in the engagement process with all the progressive political parties, I mean political parties of the left, EFF, ANC, SACP, and MKP. We are not talking to the right wing, which is your DA. Freedom Front Plus because our position as the EFF is that we are anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist organizations, so we are open to ANC and other parties, including the forums that emerged in the local spheres.”