http://politics.za.net/articles/2006/03/21/another-mayoral-vote en-us 40 Third world country. First world politics. <p>Well that was short. It seems that Deputy Mayor Andrew Arnolds was merely a &#8216;placeholder&#8217; for Pauline Cupido who was the <span class="caps">ACDP</span>&#8217;s original candidate for mayor and will step aside and put the position back up for the <a href="http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&#38;click_id=6&#38;art_id=vn20060321020621511C720670">vote</a>. It seems Cupido is still a member of the national legislature and will have to resign first.</p> <p>This is illustrative of the fact that no one was really sure who was going to win power in the Cape and so were unwilling to give up the power they already had. Although at least Helen Zille had the cojones to resign from parliament before she was elected mayor and was prepared to be a normal city councillor had she lost.</p> <p>Now the <span class="caps">ACDP</span> are not guaranteed of replacing Andrews with Cupido. There still might be some suprises. The DA is supposedly still trying to get the ID into their coaltion and they might use this as an opportunity to woo them over. Conversely the ID might want to try and seperate themselves from the <span class="caps">ANC</span> and vote for whoever the coalition proposes anyway.</p> Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:48:00 -0500 urn:uuid:311facdfd5031ed558fbde52ff735093 Farrel http://politics.za.net/articles/2006/03/21/another-mayoral-vote DA Local Government Northern Cape ACDP ID http://politics.za.net/articles/trackback/80 <p>ya hats off to Zille.</p> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:57:08 -0500 urn:uuid: http://politics.za.net/articles/2006/03/21/another-mayoral-vote#comment-425