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...linking Treurnicht with Eugene Terre'Blanche, leader of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB), many of whose followers support the Conservatives. He said that he was reminded of a puppet show in which the man pulling the strings was the AWB leader. But it was Colin Eglin, head of the Progressive Federal Party, who said aloud what many in the House of Assembly must have been thinking: "Here we have a Nationalist government that believes in race classification, group areas, apartheid in schools, hospitals, housing and constitutional provisions, being attacked for being too liberal. What...
...vote, and its seats in Parliament dropped from 25 to 19. The P.F.P. was the official opposition party in the outgoing Parliament, but that role will now be assumed by the Conservatives. The New Republic Party, another liberal group, lost four of its five seats. Acknowledged Progressive Leader Colin Eglin: "I cannot deny that the results pose a major setback for the P.F.P. and the concept of a reform alliance developing into an alternative government. There is no doubt that the election in its totality represents a lurch to the right...
...perhaps even register a slight increase in its 116-seat majority in the 166-member House of Assembly. The opposition Progressive Federal Party, in league with the small New Republic Party, could not hope to add more than a handful of seats to its present 30. P.F.P. Leader Colin Eglin said he saw "the emergence among upwardly mobile city Afrikaners of a new spirit demanding new deals and moving away from the old shibboleths of Nationalist apartheid." That may be true, but such a spirit does not necessarily translate itself into immediate parliamentary victories...
...Party is struggling to retain its position as the opposition party, a role it has held for more than nine years. It has been handicapped, however, by the confidence-dashing resignation a year ago of its dynamic leader, Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert, 46. The party's new chief, Colin Eglin, hopes to increase its seats from 27 to about 40. That may be more of a dream than a hope. Forty seats, he speculates, could make the P.F.P. large enough that some relatively liberal National Party Members of Parliament might join forces with it. "We are moving toward alliance politics...
...Eglin and other political pundits estimate that there are up to 30 so- called New Nats, who might leave the National Party if they could help take over the government. This strategy received some support last month when Wynand Malan, one of the best known of them, announced that he was resigning from the party and would run as an independent candidate. But Eglin's ploy still seems a long shot. No other M.P.s joined Malan in leaving the party, and he said that he would not join the P.F.P. "because there are too many things in the party philosophy...