DA’s Ivan Meyer fires back at McKenzie: ‘We’re not in ICU, we’re alive in polls’

Patriotic Alliance (PA) President Gayton McKenzie has claimed that the “DA is in ICU”. Dr Ivan Meyer, the Federal Chairperson of the DA, has strongly rebutted the claims made by Patriotic Alliance (PA) President Gayton McKenzie, saying that the “DA is in ICU.” Hot on the heels of winning two by-elections, McKenzie gushed about his party’s performance to Newsday at the sidelines of the State of the Nation Address (SONA). “We are the fastest-growing political party in the country.

Not on polling, polling is for strippers. In three weeks, we won three wards in the Western Cape. In the Western Cape, the DA’s time is over.

The DA is in ICU,” said McKenzie. In the George Local Municipality in the Garden Route, the PA has won five by-elections this year, three of which are former DA stronghold wards. On Sunday, the PA’s spokesperson, Steve Motale, added: “We are attacking George, Saldanha and Drakenstein, we will turn our full attention to the City of Cape Town.

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“The DA is alive in polls but in ICU on the ground. DA being in ICU on the ground means its support is dwindling, making it irrelevant to voters, something that will condemn the party into extinction.” Meyer, fresh off the DA’s Mpumalanga Provincial Congress on Saturday, said that the Democratic Alliance is alive and well, and that they will demonstrate that in the election later this year. “We have recently lost two wards, that is correct, but we’ve also won two wards again.

And if you look at what is happening, for example, in Mpumalanga, we won two wards from the ANC,” Meyer said. “Our mission for this local government election is to rescue our towns. It breaks my heart when I see… and I was in Mpumalanga yesterday, many of those towns have no water.

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