His Excellency, President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa will be facing a no-confidence motion for the first since his leadership as the President of the Republic of South Africa, the motion is scheduled to take place next week.
The motion was filed by the African Transformation Movement (ATM) earlier this year, prior SA’s going to lockdown.
The Speaker of the National Assembly of South Africa, Thandi Modise agreed for the debate to be held next week, Thursday – a day before the National Assembly is set to rise.
“There had been a request by the ATM for a motion of no confidence in the president that came through several months ago. The speaker has approved that request, and our recommendation is that it be dealt with next Thursday,” the official told the National Assembly’s programming committee.
ATM filed the motion on the presumption that Ramaphosa didn’t disclose to the public that he was funded by the CR17 campaign during the elections which allegedly led to his becoming the African National Congress (ANC) leade. His benefiting from the campaign financed his bid to become the President of the RSA.
The party threatened to take the matter to the court if the debate was not set to take place.
The party has two seats in parliament and it raises too many questions as to how it’ll succeed during the debate with two seats against a party with two-hundred and thirty (230) seats as two-thirds majority in the house is required to survive. Experts are of the opinion that even though it’s unclear as the party will survive, Ramaphosa’s rivals would be able to air the views.
Harking back to the former President, Jacob Zuma’s surviving the motion of no confidence until removed from the office by Ramaphosa in February 2018, this isn’t going to be easy for him as he’s made enemies with ANC members when he refused siding with the party’s Secretery General Ace Magashula in his corruption and fraud charges together with the asbestos saga.
According to our constitution, a motion of no confidence as to be faced by the president, requires at least two-hundred and one (201) lawmakers’ support to pass.
The constitution also make provisions for the removal of a sitting president if the president has seriously violated the law, engaged in a misconduct or an inability to perform the functions of the office, but this requires a two-thirds majority in the assembly.
ATM’s leader isn’t available to give clarity as to the reasons the motion of no confidence had been made.