The tripartite alliance as a whole must be at the centre of government deployment, the Congress of SA Trade Union's 10th national congress heard on Wednesday.

The alliance had to create an electoral deployment body which "must seek to strengthen and reaffirm the centrality of the alliance," read one of the resolutions presented to congress delegates in Midrand.

"The ANC deployment strategy must become the alliance deployment strategy," said National Union of Mineworkers parliamentary co-ordinator Madoda Sambatha.

Sambatha proposed that 40 percent of elected positions be earmarked for the South African Communist Party (SACP).

ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe responded that the ANC and SACP would soon have bilateral talks on the issue of deployments and Cosatu should not pass resolutions pre-empting the matter.

"We are allowing suspicions to destroy what we have built over the years," he warned.

The delegates rejected a section of the resolution proposing that alliance partners nominate their own candidates for an election and that a final electoral list be drawn from these proposals.

Criticising this proposal, Mantashe said: "There is one list and that has to be an ANC list."

During the debate on deployments, delegates pointed out that poor service delivery could often be attributed to local government officials.

Mantashe agreed that the selection of poor candidates could have serious implications and result in lost by-elections.

"[It's] true when we select the wrong candidate even we lose a by-election. The ANC is alive to that point," he said. "Alliance partners at all levels should engage each other."

The congress passed a resolution that it participate in reviewing provincial government, and said discussions on its continued existence had to be further discussed by the alliance.

,p> It also passed a socio-economic resolution for a move towards 100 percent state ownership of the South African Reserve Bank.

This, so the bank would be "completely independent from the undue influence of capital through its shareholding and participation in the governance and policy-making bodies of the bank".

,p> Cosatu resolved that it wanted the policy of inflation targeting done away with in favour of economic growth and employment targets, and SARB intervention in the foreign exchange markets.

It also wanted speedy implementation of the framework for South Africa's response to the global financial crisis.