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DA MP Willie Aucamp
The Democratic Alliance’s (DA) Federal Executive will be holding meetings over the next two-days to discuss the party’s future in the Government of National Unity (GNU). This is according to DA spokesperson, Willie Aucamp.
This comes after the National Assembly adopted the 2025 Fiscal Framework and Revenue Proposal as tabled by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana.
A total of 194 votes were cast in favour of the budget, while 182 MPs voted against it.
Aucamp has confirmed that the party’s filed papers in the Western Cape High Court to challenge Parliament’s passing of the 2025/26 National Budget.
“Should the DA stay within the GNU, it’s going to be difficult because we did not have any say in the drafting of this budget and it would now be expected of us to implement it. So, how can you implement a budget that you do not believe in. We will be punished by people if we are going to implement the same ANC financial policies that we saw them using over 30 years that were creating unemployment that we’ve never seen before in this country – that created poverty that this country has never experienced before and the DA would not want to be complicit in strengthening the ANC’s hand to again run this country into the ground.”
