{"id":967737,"date":"2024-06-01T12:10:47","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T12:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967737"},"modified":"2024-06-01T12:10:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T12:10:47","slug":"maimane-scoffs-at-das-growth-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/maimane-scoffs-at-das-growth-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Maimane scoffs at DA\u2019s growth claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Build One South Africa (BOSA) leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/943217-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mmusi Maimane<\/a> has scoffed at claims the DA has performed well after Wednesday\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n<p>Maimane says the official opposition has simply gained back the voters it lost in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The performance of the DA during the 2019 polls led to Maimane\u2019s departure from the party.<\/p>\n<p>In that election, the party gained 3.6 million votes translating to 20.77%.<\/p>\n<p>However, after Wednesday\u2019s polls, the DA is currently at 3.3 million, translating to 21.67%.<\/p>\n<p>Maimane spoke to the SABC at the National Results Operations Centre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened to the DA\u2019s marginal growth as they describe it is a return of Freedom Front Plus voters. We got 3.6 million votes in 20219. They got 3.3 million. Surely, surely if you were the official opposition position at a time when the governing party lost over 14 points at the polls, you can\u2019t even gain 1% of those 14, you can\u2019t grow beyond that 1% and then you want to browbeat and say you\u2019ve done extraordinarily well. I think it\u2019s disingenuous at best,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Maimane says the the conclusion of vote counting and declaration of the final results should come to an end, in order for service delivery work to commence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes Build One South Africa (BOSA) leader Mmusi Maimane has scoffed at claims the DA has performed well after Wednesday\u2019s elections. Maimane says the official opposition has simply gained back the voters it lost in 2019. The performance of the DA during the 2019 polls led to Maimane\u2019s departure from the party. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":967738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[2894,471,472,234,1984],"class_list":["post-967737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2024-general-election-results","tag-bosa","tag-build-one-south-africa","tag-da","tag-mmusi-maimane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}