UPND IN A DECLINING PHASE
By Faston Mwale, SP Deputy General Secretary – Politics
It is not in question that the ruling UPND is declining in terms of popularity. A great majority of the toiling masses are fatigued with the lies of the UPND and are beginning to muster courage to openly react and denounce the UPND for perpetrating deceptive politics.
Since assuming state power in 2021, the people have always been fed with a constant diet of lies. But we all know that lies have a very short term horizon. Today, the UPND is in trouble precisely because of deception.
It is becoming increasingly clear that the lying streak in the veins of the UPND is confronting its opposite. The emerging truth is that the masses feel scammed. The frustration, resentment and discontentment are clearly visible on the faces of the toiling masses. The pervading mood of change is growing and permeating all angles of society.
The Socialist Party that the UPND denigrated and underrated is today becoming a decisive political force on Zambia’s political arena. But why is the political tectonic plate shifting towards M’membe and the Socialist Party? It is precisely because M’membe is fostering politics based on truthful discourse.
The UPND of yester years is far different from the UPND of today. In government, the UPND is a shameful example of neoliberal capitalist politics. Wherever you go today, the masses are complaining. The main subject of conversation in many public spaces including pulpits is about how the UPND duped the masses during the atrophying phase of the PF.
Today, the UPND is failing to approach the people with a straight face. During by elections, the main strategy of the UPND is to distribute cash and or food rations. But even this crude strategy has limits. Soon it will grow sterile. Weaponising poverty against the poor struggling masses is bound to backfire badly. The people are realising that it is not proper that the ruling party should be asking people for a voters card and NRC as a prerequisite for food rations? Starving the masses as a strategy to manipulate them for votes is outrageously immoral.
The people should refuse to be used as articles of political manipulation whenever the UPND is looking for votes. Please, get the money and food but do not vote for them. It would be an enormous mistake to vote for them. They must know that what they are doing is immoral.