{"id":967773,"date":"2024-06-01T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967773"},"modified":"2024-06-01T16:38:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T16:38:00","slug":"patriotic-alliance-open-to-coalition-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/patriotic-alliance-open-to-coalition-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriotic Alliance open to coalition talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Patriotic Alliance (PA) says it is open to coalition talks with all parties \u2013 especially those willing to give the PA a home affairs portfolio.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/da-pa-urged-to-resolve-disputes-and-cooperate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The PA has recorded 2% of the national vote in these elections with nearly 100% of results recorded<\/a>. It also has achieved a presence in seven municipalities, with its best showing being the 8% recorded in the Western Cape province.<\/p>\n<p>The party campaigned primarily on an anti-illegal foreigner ticket \u2013 with the by-line Abahambe, \u201cThey must go\u201d. PA President Gayton McKenzie was speaking to the media at the Results Centre in Midrand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith us we don\u2019t have a preference in parties. Everybody knows if they want to talk to the PA number one is <span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Abahambe<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\"> we don\u2019t want finance, we want home affairs. So if you want to to us start with home affairs we must give <\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">EFF<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\"> finance but with PA home affairs. And if you have another one extra, police. So once we have got them we take them out of the country. But home affairs for us is number one.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute The Patriotic Alliance (PA) says it is open to coalition talks with all parties \u2013 especially those willing to give the PA a home affairs portfolio. The PA has recorded 2% of the national vote in these elections with nearly 100% of results recorded. It also has achieved a presence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":967774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[1591,1946,410,222,2971],"class_list":["post-967773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2024-general-elections","tag-coalition-government","tag-pa","tag-patriotic-alliance","tag-western-cape-province"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967773","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}