By Daily Revelation Editor
There have been enhanced calls for the opposition political parties in the country to unite and remove the UPND administration from office in the August 13, 2026 general elections.
The calls have especially grown louder following the victory of FDD/Tonse/PF candidate Bright Nundwe over the UPND’S Morgan Muunda in the recent Chawama by-election, with it being argued that the urban/or peri urban set up of Chawama provided the clearest sign in terms of the people’s mood, particularly in urban centres, which would play a key role in the August 2026 general elections.
A few days after that election, a group of elders held a meeting at which they sought to unite political parties.
However, from what has been observed so far, the task of uniting opposition parties to stand under the banner of one candidate will prove challenging again, as most of the prominent opposition leaders on the scene would not subjugate themselves under the leadership of the others. And there are plenty of examples out there rendering credence to this argument.
One only needs to look at the happenings in the PF and Tonse Alliance for instance, where those who were buddies not too long ago went separate ways, in the process seemingly creating a new faction from the PF, the ‘PF ECL movement’ that will work with the Tonse Alliance. To imagine that this divorce happened in the midst of the Chawama by-election where opposition unity, especially from the PF was expected, was needed the most, explains the difficult task at hand.
We hear that from within PF itself, the Chawama by-election victory was celebrated half-heartedly, because it was apparently delivered by a grouping from within the political party that is said to be at odds with the other faction in Tonse. As a result, we are being told that the aggrieved faction is now working socks off to outdo the other grouping which delivered in Chawama in upcoming Kasama by-election to elect the council chairperson. Watch the space as there is likely more dram in store still to come.
While this drama is happening in the PF, other vehicles have recently been formed, including the Socialist Party’s led People’s Pact, offering itself as an alternative in case things fail to work out in the PF or Tonse Alliance.
But despite all this, one thing Zambians are known for is they have a habit of showing the politicians their own path when they fail to make decisions. They have always done so by choosing their own preferred arrangements from the usually congested lists, from one election to the other. And they did so even in Chawama.
In Chawama, people picked the three main contenders from a congested list. They picked the Tonse/FDD/PF candidate as first choice and then the UPND candidate, followed by a distant third, the Citizen First candidate (admittedly with improved percentages from the previous elections), in that order. We can trust the Zambian people from these three contenders in August election, or even another order should the opposition fail to unite, as it seems likely.
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By Daily Revelation Editor
There have been enhanced calls for the opposition political parties in the country to unite and remove the UPND administration from office in the August 13, 2026 general elections.
The calls have especially grown louder following the victory of FDD/Tonse/PF candidate Bright Nundwe over the UPND’S Morgan Muunda in the recent Chawama by-election, with it being argued that the urban/or peri urban set up of Chawama provided the clearest sign in terms of the people’s mood, particularly in urban centres, which would play a key role in the August 2026 general elections.
A few days after that election, a group of elders held a meeting at which they sought to unite political parties.
However, from what has been observed so far, the task of uniting opposition parties to stand under the banner of one candidate will prove challenging again, as most of the prominent opposition leaders on the scene would not subjugate themselves under the leadership of the others. And there are plenty of examples out there rendering credence to this argument.
One only needs to look at the happenings in the PF and Tonse Alliance for instance, where those who were buddies not too long ago went separate ways, in the process seemingly creating a new faction from the PF, the ‘PF ECL movement’ that will work with the Tonse Alliance. To imagine that this divorce happened in the midst of the Chawama by-election where opposition unity, especially from the PF was expected, was needed the most, explains the difficult task at hand.
We hear that from within PF itself, the Chawama by-election victory was celebrated half-heartedly, because it was apparently delivered by a grouping from within the political party that is said to be at odds with the other faction in Tonse. As a result, we are being told that the aggrieved faction is now working socks off to outdo the other grouping which delivered in Chawama in upcoming Kasama by-election to elect the council chairperson. Watch the space as there is likely more dram in store still to come.
While this drama is happening in the PF, other vehicles have recently been formed, including the Socialist Party’s led People’s Pact, offering itself as an alternative in case things fail to work out in the PF or Tonse Alliance.
But despite all this, one thing Zambians are known for is they have a habit of showing the politicians their own path when they fail to make decisions. They have always done so by choosing their own preferred arrangements from the usually congested lists, from one election to the other. And they did so even in Chawama.
In Chawama, people picked the three main contenders from a congested list. They picked the Tonse/FDD/PF candidate as first choice and then the UPND candidate, followed by a distant third, the Citizen First candidate (admittedly with improved percentages from the previous elections), in that order. We can trust the Zambian people from these three contenders in August election, or even another order should the opposition fail to unite, as it seems likely.
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