“Congratulations President Cyril Ramaphosa on your well-deserved victory. We wish you, the ANC and the people of South Africa success. We look forward to continuing even stronger cooperation between our people and nations towards our shared goal of prosperity!” he said in a tweet.
South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), retained control of parliament in national elections held last week allowing Cyril Ramaphosa to extend tenure.
Results from the Independent Electoral Commission website on Saturday showed the ANC garnered about 58% of the vote. Opposition parties the Democratic Alliance got 21%, while the leftist Economic Freedom Fighters garnered 11%.
It was the worst electoral performance by the late Nelson Mandela’s former liberation movement, which has governed South Africa since the country’s first free election marked the end of white minority rule in 1994.
The ANC had not previously won less than 60 percent of the vote in a national poll, but its victory secures it enough seats in parliament to give President Cyril Ramaphosa another five-year term in office.
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