Chairperson, I move without notice:
That the Council -
1) notes that the local government elections last week confirmed that the small parties have virtually all imploded, losing their support largely to the African National Congress, ANC, and Democratic Alliance, DA;
2) acknowledges that this is an indication that the DA has reached its ceiling in terms of its support in the minority communities and the few township areas;
3) further acknowledges that the DA's perceived growth and victory in a few municipalities is relative and without real significance, given that the DA did not make any inroads into ANC support and that black support for the DA was mainly drawn from Cope voters who did not support the ANC before; and
4) concludes that the results in the Cape Town and Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitans are indicative that the DA was mainly strengthened by Cope supporters who have defected to the DA and the large majority of their undecided voters and the ID, which has been swallowed, and who in time will realise that only the ANC is committed to bringing change in our communities, especially in the coloured and Indian areas that have been neglected by the DA.
[Interjections.]
In the light of the objection, the motion may not be proceeded with. The motion without notice will now become a notice of motion.