But, as usual, Speaker, the devil is in the detail. I will come to that detail in a minute. [Interjections.]
Let me pause for a minute to say that we always have copycats in politics and as soon as we had moved our motion, we also had a motion of no confidence in the Premier of the Western Cape, which was moved by the very ANC who blocked this motion! Well, instead of blocking it in the Western Cape, we invited a debate on that motion. It was done today, and the achievements of the DA government in the Western Cape were highlighted. The debate took place and was concluded, and the motion was defeated. That is the way it should happen in a democracy. [Applause.]
However, Speaker, let me tell you that the judge today did not fault our application. On the contrary, he emphasised that it was the right of the opposition to do so, stating that debating a motion of no confidence was the very essence of a deliberative democracy. [Interjections.]