The Freedom Front Plus wants the Afrikaner-only enclave, Orania to be constitutionally recognised as one of its preconditions to negotiations with the ANC in the Northern Cape.
“Our proposals exclude participation in government, but a position in the accountability ecosystem for local government,” the party’s Northern Cape leader, Wynand Boshoff, said.
“Our present feedback is that the ANC regards it as reasonable, but still has to [send it] through its structures.”
However, parties said discussions were ongoing.
This is ahead of the first sitting of the legislature on Friday where the election of the premier, speaker and deputy speaker will take place through a secret ballot .
The Northern Cape, along with Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, is one of three provinces in which the ANC lost its outright majority during the May general election, requiring it to form a coalition with other parties to continue governing.
In the Northern Cape legislature, 16 seats are required to have an outright majority. Out of the 30 seats in the legislature, the ANC has been allocated 15, the EFF has four, the DA seven, PA and the Freedom Front Plus have one seat each.
At national level, the ANC is still finalising discussions with other parties to form a government of national unity (GNU). The IFP confirmed on Wednesday it had agreed to join the grand coalition with the ANC and the DA.
The outcomes of the talks are expected to filter down to provinces in which there has been no outright winner.
The FF Plus’ national spokesperson, Wouter Wessels, says the party has not yet agreed to join the GNU as talks with the ANC have only been exploratory.
“Nothing has been formalised and our structures have not made any final decisions,” Wessels said .
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