Phuti Mosomane
ActionSA Chairperson Michael Beaumont said the party has approved a proposal for Athol Trollip to chair the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) nationally and in the provinces in which it has representation.
Trollip is ActionSA’s Parliamentary Caucus leader, and the party has six seats in the National Assembly and eight seats provincially.
Beaumont said the decision was made by the party’s highest structure, the senate, and follows a meeting with the ANC on 25 June 2024 in which ActionSA communicated that “it would not be joining the grand coalition and would play the role of a constructive unofficial opposition in the concerning environment in which over 70% of Parliament now forms part of government.”
He said ActionSA has availed itself to Chair the Standing Committees on Public Accounts in light of the established convention that this role be led by a Party in the opposition space.
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