On Sunday a special sitting of the party's Federal Council elected John Steenhuisen as its interim leader.
The Democratic Alliance will be going to an early Federal Congress in May 2020 where the party’s highest decision making body will elect a new leadership.as its interim leader and Ivan Meyer as interim Federal Chairperson. The two positions became vacant following Mmusi Maimane and Athol Trollip’s unexpected resignations, three days after Helen Zille was elected party’s Federal Council Chair in October.“What is now critically important is to have the policy conference – and in terms of our time line, in April 2020 and in May 2020 the Federal executive has approved a time line to have a federal congress to elect permanent leaders.