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Lessons From The Elections
After the general elections over the weekend, the nation is now expected to settle down to business without the political heat generated in the last year or so because of the campaigns. Whichever way one looks at it, the elections should have some instructive lessons for Batswana. For the first time, the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) ushered in a new primary election system and discarded the old electoral colleges to nominate its election candidates. Although this process was meant to democratise the BDP’s electoral system, it resulted in divisive politics that is still haunting the party.
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