TheTimes.jpg Chaos as EFF disrupts parliament, divides opposition Jan-Jan Joubert, The Times, Johannesburg, 19 June 2015 Parliament descended into chaos and proceedings were halted yesterday as the EFF isolated itself from other opposition parties by preventing President Jacob Zuma from answering questions related to his accountability. National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete suspended proceedings after two-and-a-half hours of disruption, saying the EFF was undermining the will of South Africa's people. Despite an agreement between parties that questions to the president continue, the EFF persisted in shouting "Pay back the money", even as Zuma took to the podium to answer questions. The other opposition parties said they felt parliament had been deprived of an opportunity to question Zuma and had again given him an opportunity to avoid answering tough questions. During a stormy closed meeting of representatives of all major political parties yesterday afternoon while the National Assembly was adjourned, EFF representatives made it clear that they would continue disrupting parliamentary sittings. Zuma was scheduled to answer six specific questions from MPs, and follow-up questions by other MPs, but none of the questions was related to Nkandla. Because the EFF garnered only 6% of the vote in last year's election, and because questions are awarded to parties in proportion to their voter support, it was not the EFF's turn to put a question yesterday. From: <http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2015/06/19/Chaos-as-EFF-disrupts-parlia ment-divides-opposition> http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2015/06/19/Chaos-as-EFF-disrupts-parliam ent-divides-opposition -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
