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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>ANC national chair Gwede Mantashe says the governing party has no intention of legally challenging election results as it monitors the \u201cbiggest surprise\u201d of the MK Party leading early in the vote count in KwaZulu-Natal.<\/p>\n

With 11.14% of votes counted in the province, Jacob Zuma\u2019s new party had an early lead with 43.5%. The ANC trailed at 21.38% and the IFP had 17.42% of the votes counted. Speaking at the IEC\u2019s national results operation centre in Midrand on Thursday, Mantashe described MK\u2019s lead as the governing party\u2019s \u201cbiggest surprise\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe appreciated that there was going to be a huge contest, but it came from an angle that we did not really expect. We thought the IFP was going to give us hard times, but now the MK Party has punished both the ANC and the IFP. That was the biggest surprise,\u201d Mantashe said in an interview with eNCA.<\/p>\n

Mantashe was hopeful the governing party had a fighting chance.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are doing relatively well as we are just under a million votes with more than 2-million counted. We hope we can breach 50%. If MK wins KZN, we will not contest because numbers will be saying so. We will not take the IEC to court to contest the election outcomes. We are not objecting to the outcome. We will accept the results.\u201d<\/p>\n

The governing party before the elections had initiated a legal showdown against the MK Party, but it lost. The ANC had dragged Zuma’s party to court arguing the party was named after the ANC’s disbanded military wing and wanted it deregistered. Mantashe said the ANC had no difficulty with ensuing disciplinary action against Zuma, though the party has not expelled its former president for breaching the ANC constitution by leading an opposition party while still an ANC member.<\/p>\n

Mantashe had suggested to the ANC that Zuma face disciplinary action after the elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no tough task. He has moved on and he is doing well with his new party. He cannot double park,\u201d Mantashe said.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – South-Africa. ANC national chair Gwede Mantashe says the governing party has no intention of legally challenging election results as it monitors the \u201cbiggest surprise\u201d of the MK Party leading early in the vote count in KwaZulu-Natal. 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