UDC partners ready for 2019
Friday, January 12, 2018
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.
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