Johnathan Paoli
THE Multi-Party Charter has officially declined the application of the Referendum Party on Friday to join the formerly known Moonshot Pact alliance as its 12th member.
The Referendum Party was launched in November last year and has described itself as a single-issue political party that seeks a referendum on Cape Independence.
Party leader Phil Craig said the major focus areas of the MPC was to remove an ANC government from power and bring power to the people.
The RP said it was seeking to join the alliance in a bid to protect the province of the Western Cape from an ANC-EFF government.
“Asking the Western Cape people, in a referendum held in accordance with the South African Constitution, whether they want to rid themselves of the ANC and EFF [Economic Freedom Fighters] forever is entirely consistent with these values. This is exactly what Cape independence will achieve,” Craig said.
However, ActionSA came out strongly against the Referendum Party’s application to join the MPC.
ActionSA national chair Michael Beaumont said that his party would prefer quitting the charter rather than be in an alliance with such a divisive party calling for ‘Cape independence’.
“The notion of the western Cape seceding from the Republic of South Africa is constitutionally offensive, exclusionary, and based on the absurd notion that the Western Cape is economically, historically or socially distinct from the rest of South Africa,” Beaumont said.
The ActionSA chair said that while the charter stood for the effective removal of the ruling party, it did so as a sovereign and whole country, and not held hostage by regional and reactionary movements.
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