UDC partners ready for 2019

FRANCISTOWN: The quartet opposition coalition parties have vowed to usurp power from the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) that has not lost a single general election since 1965, albeit with dwindling popularity. The UDC is certainly buoyed by the ruling party’s below 50% popular vote recorded in the 2014 general elections. The BDP had garnered about 46.7%, the first since Independence.

The UDC hope comes in the backdrop of the opposition bloc having experienced a major setback, especially after a partner BMD, experienced a split that saw one of its factions morphing into a fully-fledged party known as the Alliance for Progressives (AP) led by NdabaGaolathe, formerly BMD president.  The breakaway happened after last year’s infamous Bobonong bloody congress held at Matshekge Hill School.