CAPE TOWN, South Africa—For the first time in 30 years, South African lawmakers will elect a president on Friday with the outcome not a mere formality.
Cyril Ramaphosa is seeking a second term as leader of Africa’s most industrialized economy but his African National Congress party has been weakened after losing its long-held majority in an election last month. He will need the support of other parties if he is to return as president.
The DA, the second largest party in Parliament behind the ANC with a potentially decisive number of lawmakers, said talks on the exact details had continued through the night and into early Friday and there was no signed agreement just hours before Parliament convened at 10 a.m. local time. The ANC had faced a deadline to cobble together a coalition agreement of some sort given Parliament must sit for the first time and vote for the president within 14 days of the election results being declared.
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