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UPND is a regional party - Chanda

UPND is a regional party - Chanda
By Mwala Kalaluka
Sat 16 June 2012, 13:24 CAT

UPND is still a regional party, says former PF national youth chairman Eric Chanda. Commenting on the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ)'s publication of various political parties' participation in the forthcoming parliamentary and local government by-elections, Chanda yesterday said the display proves that UPND was still a regional party.

"To prove to the Zambian people that the PF is getting stronger than what HH Hakainde Hichilema thinks, if you look at the statistics of UPND's participation in by-elections, you will still realise that UPND is still a regional party," he said.

"In Central Province they are scared of fielding any parliamentary candidate. In Eastern Province they have not provided any candidate in the parliamentary by-election but they have provided a candidate in Southern Province."

Chanda said UPND has not filed for any local government by-elections in Luapula, Northern, Muchinga and Eastern provinces.

"They have only contested the local government by-elections in Souther, Western, North Western and Central provinces. They are even compteting against the MMD in North Western Province," Chanda said.

He said this shows that the UPND will not go anywhere in Zambia because it was a party that had failed to penetrate all areas of the country.

"The UPND claim to be in an alliance with the MMD but if you look at the local government statistics where they have fielded candidates, you will notice that the MMD and UPND have both fielded candidates in two of the local government by-elections," he said.

"This to me shows that the alliance is cosmetic and it is not going anywhere because the UPND can never be trusted in an alliance. The PF tried an alliance with them and they went against the rules of the alliance, which we formed and at the end of the day it crumbled. I want to tell the MMD that they are wasting time with the UPND."

And Chanda said Hichilema was a just a toddler in politics and he does not know how governments collapse.

"He can't accuse the PF government of collapsing if we have the police who are so committed to bring sanity, integrity and respect to the office of the President," Chnda said.

"He should realise that the police calling him to record a warn and caution statement shows that the PF government is more stronger and committed to wiping out insults on the office of the President and all well-meaning Zambians should commend the police for that."

Chanda advised Hichilema that heaping insults on the Presidency was not the way of doing politics but that politics was about bringing about developmental ideas.

Labels: ERIC CHANDA, UPND

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