MEDIA STATEMENT: “A UNITY OF OPPOSITES” - THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ACTIVE UNITED FRONT AND THE DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE.
13 May 2017
The Active United Front (AUF) considers the partnership between DA and AUF as a “Unity for Opposites” for a functional government with pro-poor service delivery objectives. Bitou Local Municipality has in the past five years been governed by a coalition of political parties. It is common cause that the coalition agreement entered into by the AUF with the African National Congress (ANC) has now ended. As was the case with the ANC, the AUF has not given the Democratic Alliance (DA) a blank cheque. For the record, the AUF has entered a “pro-poor” cooperation agreement with the DA to:
GROW THE LOCAL ECONOMY AND
TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF OUR PEOPLE.
The parties have agreed to put structures in place to monitor and implement the stipulations of the agreement. This agreement is based on the following principles in practice: