Wind of change ready to blow‚ Western Cape premier-elect tells DA faithful
The DA may have lost five seats in parliament and seen its Western Cape support decline‚ but that did not stop it celebrating its retention of the province on Thursday.
“We know we reached as many people as we could. We made a win a reality‚” premier-elect Alan Winde told a rally of cheering and dancing DA supporters outside the provincial legislature in the Cape Town city centre. “Every single blue person in this province‚ whether you were just a voter‚ whether you were door-to-door‚ whatever you were‚ you were the blue people that made this 55% a reality,” he said. Winde said the celebration would not last long. “We take our blue jackets off [next week] and put on a responsibility for everyone in this province, no matter who they voted for‚” he said. The election numbers were not what the DA had hoped for‚ with its share of the vote in the Western Cape declining from 59.38% in 2014 to 55.58%. The number of votes cast for the party fell 9.44%‚ but the ANC polled 15.57% fewer...
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