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The ANC NEC is set to meet this week amid ongoing discussions around coalitions, and the IEC has been lauded for how it conducted the 2026 local government elections. Within user 2, good afternoon, I'm Komojo Mabelani. The African National Congress says its National Executive Committee is set to meet this week amid ongoing discussions around coalitions with the final election results.

Expected to be declared later today, the ANC says it will use the NEC meeting to outline its approach to local government coalition arrangements. With 99% of the national votes counted, the ANC is currently leading with 30.6%, followed by the Democratic Alliance at 24.64% and the uMkhonto weSizwe Party at 9.76%. The ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula linked the party's decline to push

Poor service delivery from ANC-led municipalities. We will confront the reasons why people who once regarded the ANC as their natural political home have become disillusioned with our movement. We must acknowledge that in too many communities, local government has fallen short of the expectations of our people. Where communities have experienced unreliable water supplies, failing infrastructure, uncollected refuse, deteriorating roads, corruption.

And poor municipal administration, they have every right to demand better. The DA's City of Swan Emerald candidate Cilliers Brink says the party may have to rethink how it implements its agenda in the municipality. Brink says while the election outcomes could affect the DA's plans for the capital, the party will adopt a different approach to governing, even if it has to work with coalition partners. His remarks come as part.