Independent Democrats
The Independent Democrats (ID ) are a South African party.
They were formed in 2003 when Patricia de Lille their former party, the Pan Africanist Congress, after internal strife left to form a new party. The party defines itself as a social democratic and committed to a market economy. She is strongly influenced by the often referred to as charismatic person de Lille and engages issues such as corruption and AIDS on in which it accuses the ruling ANC omissions. On 15 August 2010, the party announced to merge with the Democratic Alliance to form a stronger counterweight to the ruling ANC.
Influence
In the national elections of 2004, the entry into the South African Parliament succeeded. The strongholds of the ID in this election were the provinces of Western Cape and Northern Cape, a much smaller, but still significant support received, the party in the province of Gauteng. In other provinces, the meaning is rather marginal. Their strongholds has therefore the party of white in areas with a relatively high proportion and colored voters. At a local power factor were the Independent Democrats, as they in the municipal elections of 2006 to the third- largest party and in the following year by the Mayor Helen Zille (Democratic Alliance) were included in a the ANC exclusionary coalition in Cape Town after the ID nor for in the mayoral elections the incumbent Nomaindia Mfeketo ( ANC) had voted. The ID replaced in the coalition, the apostate African Muslim Party. In the local elections in 2011, the Independent Democrats were no more than his own party to, but already on the party list of the Democratic Alliance.