Church Chaired Political Dialogue On This Friday

Political party presidents will meet on Friday at Kapingila House in the first round of the agreed dialogue process.

The Zambia Centre for Inter Party Dialogue says all the top political party presidents have confirmed attendance with the church mother bodies taking the chairmanship role.

ZCID spokesperson Jackson Silavwe said the meeting which will be chaired by the church is expected to start at 09:00 hours.

Dialogue has been a lingering debate among political parties with differences over ground rules throwing the process off the table several times.

The broad thematic areas to be considered at this Summit of Presidents shall include the following:

Constitutional and Institutional Reforms

Separation of Powers and Judicially Independence, tolerance, Freedom of Assembly and Civility in Politics

Electoral Reforms.

This is according to agreement by the national secretaries and secretary generals representing various political parties during their meeting in Siavonga mid this year.

President Edgar Lungu and his chief political adversary Hakainde Hichilema have often stood in each other’s way whilst other political players have been on the fringes of the process.