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Africa-Press<\/a> – South-Africa<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Cape Town – Ahead of this year\u2019s local government elections, yet another new national political party, the Spectrum National Party (SNP), has been launched in Cape Town in a bid to attract voters away from the bigger established parties.<\/p>\n

The SNP was registered in November 2019, but only launched last November and is led by businessman Christopher Claassen, who said that after 16 years running a security business and no previous experience in politics, he can take on the established parties.<\/p>\n

Claassen said: \u201cThe ANC has lost its way, has neglected and ignored critical issues over many years that are central to the development of our people and the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook at the state of our state-owned enterprises, our health sector, our transport system, the environment, the unacceptably high levels of extremely violent crime, agriculture, education etc,\u201d said Claassen.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe economy is in the doldrums and will be such for some time to come. To resurrect it, it needs inspiring leadership that is prepared to make calculated tough decisions,\u201d said Claassen.<\/p>\n

According to the IEC, South Africa has 541 registered political parties and of these 275 are national.<\/p>\n

Speaking about the chances of new smaller political parties against the bigger more established ones, senior political science lecturer at Stellenbosch University Collette Schulz-Herzenberg said: \u201cAt local government level there is space for a party that represents specific issues such as jobs or a specific constituency. So we must not demonise small start-up parties.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schulz-Herzenberg, who is an expert on voter behaviour, said: \u201cThe proportional representation system we have in South Africa encourages the formation of many parties, and unlike some other countries with a similar system we have no explicit threshold. In a country such as Israel, for instance, a party needs at least 5% of the vote to get a seat in Parliament.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we have a system here that has high representativity, but also one which creates a fragmented political scene,\u201d said Schulz-Herzenberg<\/p>\n

Political analyst Shingai Mutizwa-Mangiza said: \u201cThe structure of South Africa\u2019s electoral system by its nature promotes greater diversity.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn South Africa the system is still dominated by one party, the ANC, but theoretically coalitions are possible here and may yet happen in future elections. This is because born free voters, who don\u2019t necessarily vote like their parents, might change the dynamics,\u201d said Mutizwa-Mangiza.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat will be when small parties can come in with a chance to be in the national government and have a real say,\u201d said Mutiza-Mangiza.<\/p>\n

Cape Argus<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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