Province to make necessary changes.
THE ANC provincial executive committee (PEC) spent last night scrutinising whether all the names favoured to top next year’s party lists to Bhisho legislature and Parliament met the party’s constitutional requirements.
Provincial secretary Oscar Mabuyane confirmed yesterday that the counting of votes from last Thursday’s list conference was finalised on Sunday, and that the PEC’s list committee, led by provincial chairman Phumulo Masualle, met on Monday and finalised the lists.
But voting patterns won’t be the primary determiner of who gets fielded on which list come the ANC’s national general council later this month, as the PEC met at 5pm yesterday and made further changes to the list.
Mabuyane said it was important to effect such changes where necessary because the party has very clear policies on gender balance, in that for every male candidate there should be a female candidate “whether someone is on top of the list or not”.
The ANC’s constitution states clearly that representation in all deployment must reflect a 50/50 percent men to women ratio.
The discussion follows last week’s nomination list conference where hundreds of branch delegates from across the province voted for their preferred candidates to represent the party after next year’s general elections.
There were three lists. One comprised candidates for the Bhisho legislature, where the party has 63 seats currently. Another is for the national council of provinces and the third list is nominations for national parliamentary positions.
Mabuyane said earlier yesterday that last night’s meeting would take into account representation of the ANC’s alliance partners, the leagues (women’s and youth) as well as the geographic spread of the candidates who will make the cut.
Branches were divided on who should remain in the province and who would be fielded to the national list to represent the province in Parliament next year.
Mabuyane confirmed that this was one of the issues which would be debated at length when the PEC scrutinises the outcome of the list conference.
“We are not going to shy away from the fact that we feel that the province has to field quality candidates in Parliament so that our role can be felt when deployment to senior government positions is discussed,” he said. But he refused to mention any names that the PEC had in mind when considering such deployments.
He said: “The list committee will present its recommendations, and as the leaders of this province, the PEC will have a final say and make recommendations” to Luthuli House headquarters by the end of today.
He said both the original lists, as per last Thursday’s provincial list conference, as well as the amended list (which will be regarded as recommendations) will be presented to the national leaders before the lists are reconciled in preparation for the national list conference.
The party has yet to announce the date for the national list conference.
ANC leaders put lists in spotlight
THE ANC provincial executive committee (PEC) spent last night scrutinising whether all the names favoured to top next year’s party lists to Bhisho legislature and Parliament met the party’s constitutional requirements.
Provincial secretary Oscar Mabuyane confirmed yesterday that the counting of votes from last Thursday’s list conference was finalised on Sunday, and that the PEC’s list committee, led by provincial chairman Phumulo Masualle, met on Monday and finalised the lists.
But voting patterns won’t be the primary determiner of who gets fielded on which list come the ANC’s national general council later this month, as the PEC met at 5pm yesterday and made further changes to the list.
Mabuyane said it was important to effect such changes where necessary because the party has very clear policies on gender balance, in that for every male candidate there should be a female candidate “whether someone is on top of the list or not”.
The ANC’s constitution states clearly that representation in all deployment must reflect a 50/50 percent men to women ratio.
The discussion follows last week’s nomination list conference where hundreds of branch delegates from across the province voted for their preferred candidates to represent the party after next year’s general elections.
There were three lists. One comprised candidates for the Bhisho legislature, where the party has 63 seats currently. Another is for the national council of provinces and the third list is nominations for national parliamentary positions.
Mabuyane said earlier yesterday that last night’s meeting would take into account representation of the ANC’s alliance partners, the leagues (women’s and youth) as well as the geographic spread of the candidates who will make the cut.
Branches were divided on who should remain in the province and who would be fielded to the national list to represent the province in Parliament next year.
Mabuyane confirmed that this was one of the issues which would be debated at length when the PEC scrutinises the outcome of the list conference.
“We are not going to shy away from the fact that we feel that the province has to field quality candidates in Parliament so that our role can be felt when deployment to senior government positions is discussed,” he said. But he refused to mention any names that the PEC had in mind when considering such deployments.
He said: “The list committee will present its recommendations, and as the leaders of this province, the PEC will have a final say and make recommendations” to Luthuli House headquarters by the end of today.
He said both the original lists, as per last Thursday’s provincial list conference, as well as the amended list (which will be regarded as recommendations) will be presented to the national leaders before the lists are reconciled in preparation for the national list conference.
The party has yet to announce the date for the national list conference.
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