ACDP joins Multi-Party Charter ahead of 2024 polls

In August this year, a group of opposition parties gathered in a two-day convention in Kempton Park to form a bloc in an attempt to unseat the ANC next year. 

The parties include the DA, IFP, Freedom Front Plus, ActionSA, Independent South African National Civic Organisation, United Independent Movement, and Spectrum National Party.

ACDP Deputy president Wayne Thring says the party was initially opposed to joining or establishing coalitions prior to an election but it reconsidered its position after it was approached. 

"Post the establishment of the Multi-Party Charter, the ACDP was approached to join the Charter. Our leadership sought clarity as to whether the Charter represented a coalition and what was the status of the Moon-Shot Pact," he says, referring to the DA’s former naming of the coalition grouping.  

"It was confirmed that the Pact was obsolete and that the Charter was not a coalition, rather a gathering of parties who are concerned about the wrong trajectory SA is taking under the current governing party." 

"Furthermore, it was confirmed that what the Charter sought to do was to draft rules, systems, and mechanisms for the efficient running of a coalition post 2024," says Thring.  

"The leadership of the ACDP, the NEC, discussed this matter at length and in the end decided that the ACDP should join the Multi-Party Charter." 

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