Patricia de Lille's resignation letter — read it in full
'I think that the province is ready for fresh ideas and fresh leadership from a new generation that will challenge us and take us to new places'
27 January 2017 Attention: Federal leader Subject: Resignation Dear Mmusi, When I ran to be the Provincial Leader (PL) of the Democratic Alliance (DA) in the Western Cape in 2015, I had six leadership objectives that I wanted to achieve: 1. A leadership that makes rural issues its own; 2. A leadership committed to winning new DA supporters in every municipality, includingthe metro; 3. A leadership that wants to make a political home for everyone; 4. A leadership that communicates that we are a party of government; 5. A leadership that engages; 6. A leadership that shares the lessons of government. After the honour of being elected, I immediately set out to lead the team in the province to meet these goals. Over the past two years, I believe that we have made significant progress. With the party leadership in the province, we managed to improve our electoral performance in focal government across the province in 2016, including urban and rural areas, increasing the number of DA gover...
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