No love lost in the BDP primaries

Friday, January 19, 2018

Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) stream A Bulela Ditswe primary elections are on this weekend. Mmegi Staff Writers TSAONE BASIMANEBOTLHE & CHAKALISA DUBE observe that in the 10 of the 18 constituencies going for the primaries, there is not love lost among the 28 candidates

The majority of the candidates in the internal ruling party contests this weekend would need a lot of time and resources to convince voters to take them to Parliament. This is because many are newbies and the rest have been rejected at the polls before. This is the Mmegi assessment of the strength of the parliamentary hopefuls in each of the 10 constituencies.

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No love lost in the BDP primaries

Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) stream A Bulela Ditswe primary elections are on this weekend. Mmegi Staff Writers TSAONE BASIMANEBOTLHE & CHAKALISA DUBE observe that in the 10 of the 18 constituencies going for the primaries, there is not love lost among the 28 candidates