Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Agreement with political parties in regards with Parliament broken

Loyiso Langeni
25 November 2014

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa said the agreement that was made with political parties last week has been broken.

Leaders of political parties had a meeting with Deputy President Ramaphosa where they discussed that the agreement reached last week could not proceed due to the Democratic Alliance tabling a motion of censure against President Jacob Zuma.

Ramaphosa said government will continue to engage with parties on matters on how to maintain a very good decorum in Parliament. 

He emphased that the deal is off that we have struck, it was lastly breached by the Democratic Alliance’s motion of censure against the President which departed from the spirit around which the deal was struck.

“We also said that we must now allow process in Parliament to unfold. As the leader of government business we opened to continue to meet with political parties into the future to discuss matters of interest.” Ramaphosa added.

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