The EFF is confident that more South Africans will vote for the party compared to 2019. Image: X/@EFFSouthAfrica.
Elections: EFF confident it will gain more votes compared to 2019
The EFF says it is confident that it will improve its results from the 2019 elections and isn’t threatened by the MK Party especially in KZN.
The EFF is confident that more South Africans will vote for the party compared to 2019. Image: X/@EFFSouthAfrica.
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) is hopeful that more South Africans will vote for the party in the upcoming elections.
South Africa is heading to the polls on 29 May. The 2024 National and Provincial Elections have been deemed the most important since the dawn of democracy. Analysts and polls suggest the ruling party will lose its majority and plunge below 50%.
EFF CONFIDENT IT WILL GAIN MORE VOTES IN THE UPCOMING ELECTIONS
In an interview with Newzroom Afrika, EFF Deputy President Floyd Shivambu said the party has grown in many regions across the country.
Shivambu said the party would have a proportionally well-represented growth in all the country’s nine provinces. He doesn’t see the party’s support declining based on the votes they received in the 2019 elections.
“I don’t see any province declining in the work that we have recorded thus far, which will grow by less than 100% compared to 2019,” he said.
Shivambu said that based on audits conducted by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), they are the only party growing and represented countrywide in all the voting districts.
IS THE MK PARTY A THREAT?
Many political analysts have predicted that support the EFF, Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the African National Congress (ANC) will decline because of the formation of the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party led by former president Jacob Zuma.
However, Shivambu is of the view that this will not be the case citing that by the time the MK Party was formally introduced in December 2023, the EFF had already put in place the elections task forces in voting districts in KwaZulu-Natal.
“In terms of the ground forces of the EFF, there hasn’t been a shift; we have never lost any member of the EFF to the MK Party. On the contrary, the ruling party is the one that has had its regional and sub-regional leaders flock into the MK Party,” he said.
“The EFF has never been affected by the formation of the MK Party,” Shivambu reiterated.
In the 2019 elections, the red berets received 350 000 votes in KwaZulu-Natal. Shivambu said they would have underperformed if they failed to increase the number of votes by at least 100% compared to 2019.
