South Africa’s EFF Offers to Back Ramaphosa to Get Speaker Post

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13 June 2024 at 12:12 pm·1-min read

(Bloomberg) -- South Africa’s leftist Economic Freedom Fighters party said it would back the election of Cyril Ramaphosa as president in parliament in return for support for the position of speaker of the assembly.

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