The Christian Churches Monitoring group says its Parallel Vote Tabulation (PVT) estimates are consistent with the ECZ’s official results for the 2016 presidential elections. The CCMG PVT showed that President Edgar Lungu had won the elections by 50.2 percent, whereas the official ECZ results gave Lungu 50.4 percent. The CCMG says this gives confidence that
Time to move on. Zambia still has a challenging economic status and poverty to fight. With the announcement of ECL as President-Elect, one can only wish him a visionary leadership that finds solutions to the poverty in our midst as well as chart a future of hope, opportunity and unity as a country. In a
At a press briefing on Sunday evening we set out the reasons why we need a recount in Lusaka district: 1. G12 forms were withheld from our polling agents after the initial release, meaning they were not able to verify the results. The totalling process cannot be legitimately completed without these and the only way
With only 24 constituencies left, Edgar Lungu is still leading the presidential race and is increasingly looking likely to win. The incumbent president now has 1,454,165 votes, while his closest rival Hakainde Hichilema of the UPND has garnered 1,383,594 votes. The difference between the two is now 70,571, meaning Hichilema now needs to post some
Dr Cosmas Musumali has resigned from Rainbow Party. In a letter to Rainbow general secretary Wynter Kabimba yesterday, Dr Musumali, without disclosing the reasons for his resignation, stated that his decision to leave the party was with immediate effect. “I hereby tender my resignation from the Rainbow Party with immediate effect. Thanking you very much for all the work we have
Warning to our members in UPND strongholds. You are kindly warned against going out to celebrate our victory when the final presidential results are announced. We have reliable information that you will be targets of attack by UPND thugs. Your life is precious and your safety is important to us. So please stay away from
If my friends can allow me and accept to be given counsel and advice I would be greatly humbled. I feel and share your pain of losing an election and the prospects of losing attention and friends and so forth, but having been long in Zambian politics I have seen promising politicians fade away through
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