POLITICAL SCIENTIST SAYS ECONOMIC CHALLENGES AND NOT OPPOSITION DISARRAY WILL DETERMINE 2026 POLLS
Political scientist Dr. Alex Ng’oma says next year’s general election results will largely be shaped by Zambia’s economic hardships, rising cost of living, unprecedented load-shedding and sporadic fuel shortages as opposed to the apparent disarray in the opposition.
Dr. Ng’oma says while the opposition appears divided and weak on paper, voters are expected to provide serious checks through the ballot, making it critical for the ruling UPND to deliver on key essentials ahead of the polls.
He has told Phoenix News that the UPND should not be misled into thinking opposition fragmentation guarantees them victory, but must focus on ensuring the availability of fuel, electricity, mealie-meal and other essential commodities to citizens, at the right price and in sufficient quantities.
Dr. Ng’oma has further advised opposition political parties against centering their strategies on personalities or those claiming to have been “anointed”, but instead to allow the current situation to dictate their political approach.
He notes that having too many aspirants posturing as presidential contenders’ risks weakening their chances while urging citizens to scrutinize candidates thoroughly to avoid what he terms pretenders and chancers.
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Unlike other political parties, most party members under the previous political party had some advantages of incumbency, in UPND only a handful have benefited, and it will be an upward battle to call back to campaign duty those that have not benefited for the past four years with new promises. So, within its members UPND has lost numbers, and that will have a telling effect on the votes next year, to add on, MP’s for UPND have been running away from their constituencies because of fear to assist their members with resources, another minus. These are just but a few problems among the many that UPND will have to resolve coupled with general issues of electricity and the cost of living. IT WILL BE A ROUGH CAMPAIGN.
Will be one of the easiest elections by the ruling party. Please take note that all the doomsayers against UPND did not vote for the party in the previous elections. They all well known PF supporters who have always been anti UPND. Wait for 2026 in just a few months tell me what is awaiting the so called political scientists. There is no single possibility of change of Government here in Zambia as things stand. This Government has done a lot under challenging global and local economic environment and Zambian voters are not fools. They know a working Government when they see it. Listen to the so called opposition leaders when they speak even in their disarray and tell me if they inspire you. People do not just woke up to vote in large numbers for empty heads. There is no opposition leader in Zambia at the moment and all the way to the elections who can seriously pose as a challenges to HH. zero. Do they have solutions to your cited challenges, zero.
SAMLINDO where do you think that the party will find money to give every person who voted for them??? I’m upnd cadre but I’m not after money but peace than the one we had under PF criminals, you developed lazyness because of reasoning backwards,we are no longer tolerating TATAMENI this time we believe in hardworking.Ngoma is a PF criminal no wonder all his messages are mercy.