Independent Democrats

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The Independent Democrats (ID) were a South African party.

It was founded on June 21, 2003 after Patricia de Lille left her former party, the Pan Africanist Congress , after internal disputes. The party saw itself as social democratic and supported the market economy . She was strongly influenced by de Lilles, who was often described as charismatic, and took up problems such as corruption and AIDS , which she accused the ruling African National Congress (ANC) of failing to address. On August 15, 2010, the party announced that it would unite with the Democratic Alliance (DA) to provide a stronger counterweight to the ANC. It went into the DA in the run-up to the 2014 parliamentary elections .

influence

In the national elections of 2004, they entered the South African parliament. The strongholds of the ID in this election were the provinces of the Western Cape and Northern Cape , and the party received significantly less, but still notable, support in the province of Gauteng . In other provinces the importance was rather marginal. The party had its strongholds in areas with a relatively high proportion of white and colored voters. The Independent Democrats became a local power factor when they were accepted into a coalition excluding the ANC in the local elections in Cape Town in 2006 and in the following year by Mayor Helen Zille (DA) after the ID was still in the mayoral elections for the Incumbent Nomaindia Mfeketo (ANC) had voted. The ID replaced the fallen African Muslim Party in the coalition . In the local elections in 2011, the Independent Democrats no longer ran as a separate party, but were already on the Democratic Alliance party list. The party disbanded before the 2014 elections .

Election results

Choice of ... percent Seats
2004 1.73% 7th
2009 0.92% 4th

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Independent Democrats and Social Democracy ( Memento from August 2, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), last accessed April 26, 2009
  2. ↑ Werner Böhler: On the way to the two-party system. Results and consequences of the local elections in South Africa. In: KAS-Auslandsinformationen, 7 (2011), p. 62 f., Http://www.kas.de/wf/de/33.23323/
  3. ↑ iol.co.za: Mfeketo's decision was 'fatally flawed' ( Memento from August 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), May 19, 2006 (English), last accessed June 29, 2008
  4. ↑ iol.co.za: ID rejects DA's offer ( memento of November 17, 2006 in the Internet Archive ), March 23, 2006 (English), last accessed June 29, 2008
  5. ↑ iol.co.za: ID joins Zille camp ( memento from September 6, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), January 17, 2007 (English), last accessed June 29, 2008