Staff Reporter.
The Pan African Parliament has once again been postponed after more scuffles broke out.
The PAP will now elect new leadership in October.
For the second day running chaos erupted at the PAP in Midrand, Gauteng, with Members of Parliament (MPs) still having divided opinions and disagreements over whether the presidency should be on a rotational basis or via a direct ballot box.
It is understood that southern block is calling for the presidency to rotate while the east and west are against this.
The voting, which was scheduled to happen at 2pm, has been postponed to October according to several news outlets as the MPs are expected to elect the new head of PAP.
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema, one of the MPs, indicated that the environment was not conducive for elections to take place.
“You have got people who conduct elections in violent situations where they come from. That’s why they don’t see anything wrong. For us it’s not conducive because every time we meet there’s a problem. We must not allow this to go on [because] we have seen a woman being kicked… we have seen a woman being strangled and her arm being broken, “he said.
Malema’s comments come after videos emerged on social media, which saw an MP pushing the EFF leader during the proceedings.
The EFF leader has since called for the African Union (AU) to facilitate the elections in October because “some people were obsessed with positions of power”.
Video Courtesy of PAP.