{"id":968104,"date":"2024-06-14T15:57:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T15:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=968104"},"modified":"2024-06-14T15:57:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T15:57:14","slug":"da-pledges-support-for-ramaphosa-as-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/da-pledges-support-for-ramaphosa-as-president\/","title":{"rendered":"DA pledges support for Ramaphosa as President"},"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><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John <\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Steenhuisen<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\"> says his party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/da-has-signed-gnu-agreement-with-anc-ifp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">will support the election<\/a> of the African National Congress (ANC)<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">\u2018s<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">\u00a0Cyril\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Ramaphosa<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\"> as the President of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Steenhuisen<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\"> also announced that the DA would be joining the Government of National Unity (GNU).<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It is my privilege to report to you that, after two weeks of thorough negotiations that only concluded after today\u2019s sitting of Parliament had already started, the DA has reached agreement on the statement of intent for the formation of a Government of National Unity. ?? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GoVFTJsPbG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/GoVFTJsPbG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Steenhuisen MP (@jsteenhuisen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jsteenhuisen\/status\/1801607216119550149?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">The DA leader says <\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Ramaphosa<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\"> will thereafter appoint his new cabinet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">\u201cThe GNU\u2019s presidential candidate will come from the largest party inside the grouping, being President Cyril Ramaphosa. Following his election today, President <\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Ramaphosa<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\"> will then exercise his prerogative to appoint his new cabinet from among the members of the GNU, in consultation with the leaders of its constituent parties,\u201d adds Steenhuisen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Live stream of the proceedings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a2zEbZjDX3M?si=7Uue0HQ4M5LWTRBS\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen says his party will support the election of the African National Congress (ANC)\u2018s\u00a0Cyril\u00a0Ramaphosa as the President of the country. Steenhuisen also announced that the DA would be joining the Government of National Unity (GNU). It is my privilege to report to you that, after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":968105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[1909,246,234,339,321,310,376],"class_list":["post-968104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-african-national-congress","tag-anc","tag-da","tag-democratic-alliance","tag-gnu","tag-government-of-national-unity","tag-john-steenhuisen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968104","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=968104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}