S. Africa’s ANC set to win with 62% of vote
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SOUTH Africa’s ruling African National Congress was headed for a comfortable win as vote-counting in South Africa’s elections drew to a close yesterday while key opposition rivals strengthened their support after promising change after 20 years of leadership by the party that led the fight against apartheid.
With nearly 99 percent of South Africa’s voting districts counted, the African National Congress had 62.2 percent of the vote, a few percentage points lower than its result in 2009 elections, according to the national election commission.
The main opposition group, the Democratic Alliance, had 22.2 percent, up over 5 percent since the last election; and the Economic Freedom Fighters, a new party that wants to distribute wealth to the poor, had 6.3 percent.
Final results will be out today, said the commission.
Voting turnout was 73 percent of the 25 million South Africans, or half the population, who registered for the national and provincial elections held on Wednesday. Under South Africa’s proportional representation system, the 400 seats in the National Assembly will be allocated to parties based on how many votes they received nationwide.
Once led by Nelson Mandela, the ANC campaigned on record of promoting democratic freedoms and providing basic services to millions of South Africans since the end of white minority rule in 1994. Its reputation has been tarnished by the 2012 killing of several dozen protesters by police during labor unrest, which recalled the violent excesses of the apartheid era, and a scandal involving more than US$20 million in state spending on the private home of President Jacob Zuma.
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