By Amy Musgrave
The African National Congress maintains that there is no need to set up an oversight portfolio committee for the Presidency.
Earlier this week, political parties welcomed the establishment of the committee, which was not supported by the ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party, saying that it would strengthen Parliament’s mechanism to hold the executive accountable, particularly the president.
However, the ANC said on Sunday that it still believed that no argument had been advanced to date by any of the opposition parties setting out what weaknesses existed in the current arrangement.
Neither had a constructive solution been proposed on how to strengthen the existing mechanism, should the current committees have been found to be ineffective, ANC chief whip Mdumiseni Ntuli said in a statement.
“The ANC further holds as its considered view that this decision to establish yet another Portfolio Committee on the Presidency being advanced by
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