South Africa Main Opposition Sees Room for Optimism on Coalition
- DA’s Steenhuisen open to tie-up with ANC to guard constitution
- Talks on health-insurance policy opposed by DA to come later
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The leader of South Africa’s main opposition Democratic Alliance said that investor optimism about it reaching a coalition deal with the ANC to form the next government isn’t misplaced and that it is open to talks that put the country’s interests first.
The African National Congress ceded its parliamentary majority in May 29 elections for the first time since it first took power under Nelson Mandela in 1994, winning just 40.2% of the votes cast and leaving the country in political flux.