PF regalia will not be allowed in the Mfuwe parliamentary by election campaigns. Let NCP print its own campaign materials- ECZ
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PF Regalia Banned in Mfuwe Race
The Electoral Commission of Zambia has drawn a firm line in Mfuwe. PF-branded chitenge, t-shirts, or banners will not be allowed in the parliamentary by-election campaigns. The reason is simple: the PF isn’t on the ballot, the National Congress Party (NCP) is, and ECZ insists any candidate contesting must run on their officially registered symbols.
The ruling is a clear shot at the PF’s behind-the-scenes backing of the NCP candidate, just like they tried in Lumezi, and lost. The message is blunt: “Print your own regalia or stay off the trail.”
Tonse Alliance & PF: Sympathy Politics Flopping?
Yesterday’s poor show in Ngweshi has only sharpened the knives. PF threw its weight behind Tonse Alliance hopefuls, especially in Kalulushi, hoping to convert Edgar Lungu’s death into a sympathy wave. But the ruling UPND brushed them aside. Self-exiled EEP leader Chilufya Tayali twisted the knife deeper, telling his online audience that PF’s “body politics” strategy is dead on arrival, “You can’t ride a casket into State House,” he scoffed.
It’s a bruising reality check for the Greens. Once kings of the Copperbelt, now just ghosts in their former strongholds.
Airtel Slapped With K5.1 Million Fine
Outside the by-election circus, Airtel Zambia has found itself K5.1 million lighter. ZICTA finally acted after months of customer complaints over miserable network service. It’s a pocketbook warning for the country’s telecom giants: keep dropping calls, and you’ll drop your money too.
Takeaway
A party without a credible face. An alliance with no solid backbone. A sympathy card that’s falling flat. The PF’s path back to relevance looks more chaotic by the week.
As always, we’ll keep our eyes on the road.
Strange happenings in Zambia. UPND is in alliance with other political parties, and these parties do wear their own regalia but campaigning for UPND candidates.
For the PF this is wrong.
I will have more to say on this later after getting official communication from Mwangala Zaloumis.
On this useless decision by the Partisan ECZ, which has never conducted any decent Bye – Election from the time the UPND formed government , I urge the PF and it’s alliance partners to ignore this directive. It’s time for the Opposition to say enough is enough. We are not a banana republic. We are a multi party democracy and shouldn’t allow ECZ to destroy our Electoral System.
Mwangala Zaloumis and team, You have gone too far.
Wala,kikikikikiki. Mulenya mulelapila.
Sherlock Holmes would say: “It is Elementary, my Dear Watson”. My suggestion is let PF just dissolve itself into NCP and Pastor Peter Chanda be the Presidential Candidate for 2026. I know very little about him, but he seems to be a likeable Fella and he seems not to carry any Excess Baggage, compared to the famous and notorious ones that we know, who shall remain nameless. They still have 12 months to sell him to the Zambian Voters, and the old PF faces can sneak in as Ministers in the new government of NCP in 2026, that is, IF it wins.
Peter Chanda is too dark Cannot be seen when campaigning at night