Geordin Hill-Lewis hangs DA election campaign posters in Long Street, Cape Town.
The Democratic Alliance’s Federal Leader, Geordin Hill-Lewis, said that it is his “firm intention to be the candidate” for mayor in the City of Cape Town, but that the decision is not up to him.
Hill-Lewis, who was speaking at the sidelines of the DA’s voter registration campaign in the Western Cape, along with the party's Metro Regional and Campaign Chair, JP Smith, said that the announcement for the mayoral candidate will be made next month.
When asked if he will be announcing his own candidacy for Cape Town mayor, Hill-Lewis said, “Can you please ask the DA that? Because I am one of the candidates, I know this sounds like a joke, but it is 100% not a joke. I am not involved in the process because I am one of the candidates, so the matter must come to the DA's Federal Executive in the coming weeks, and then an announcement will be made towards the end of June.
“It's absolutely my firm intention to be the candidate, so I hope that that's what the DA's FedEx decides, but I won't be there for the discussion. I will have to excuse myself,” he said.
