Maimane distances DA from EFF threat

 

 

SAPA, IOL, Cape Town, 15 January 2015

 

Democratic Alliance parliamentary leader Mmusi Maimane on Thursday distanced
the official opposition from a threat by the Economic Freedom Fighters to
corner President Jacob Zuma on the Nkandla controversy at the opening of
Parliament next month.

 

"The EFF's planned disruption of the State of the Nation may be good for
high drama, but it does not help to restore Parliament's role as the apex of
our democracy's mechanisms of accountability," Maimane told a press
conference on the steps of the National Assembly in Cape Town.

 

"Destroying the institution of Parliament in no way strengthens its role."

 

Maimane denied that this marked a U-turn for the DA benches who last year
flouted the legislature's rules when, along with the EFF, it heckled Speaker
Baleka Mbete, chanting "you must go".

 

Sapa

 

From:
http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/maimane-distances-da-from-eff-threat-1.18
05221#.VLf4tSuUeD9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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