DA announces Roy Jankielsohn as Premier candidate for our Free State Moonshot
11 August 2023
This is a momentous moment for the DA, on our pathway to Election 2024 as we select Premier Candidates who can win, and who can govern Provinces across South Africa, rescue them from ANC failure and can deliver the DA’s alternative to the people crying out for change.
In the coming weeks, as the DA election campaign surges forward we will announce our candidates for Premier across more and more Provinces – in places we have never had Premier candidate before. This is because, for the first time, these Provinces are truly winnable out of the hands of the party that has misgoverned them for the past 30 years.
The DA’s process to select Premier Candidates is a thorough, open process run by the office of the Chairperson of our Federal Executive, and it involved an open application process, screening, tests, interviews and external assessments. We have supreme confidence in our internal democracy and the systems of checks and balances in our party.
Today, with the announcement of Roy Jankielsohn as our candidate for Premier, we are making a bold statement of intent. Once a heartland of the ANC, the Free State Province is now certainly winnable, and we believe we can form a government in the Province after Election 2024.