BCP rallies behind Saleshando

Saleshando lost the Gaborone Central constituency to Phenyo Butale of  the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) last October. He had been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency since defeating Margaret Nasha of the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) in 2004.

In the last general elections, in which he lost to youthful Butale, BCP garnered 140,998 votes nationally while the UDC got 207,113. The BDP got 320,647 votes. As a result BCP won three constituencies to the UDC’s 17 seats while the BDP claimed 37 parliamentary seats.