BCP MPs join UDC
Staff Writer | Tuesday August 8, 2017 16:07
In a letter dated August 3, 2017, Saleshando stated: “Following the engagement between the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) and the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC), it is my pleasure to inform you that the BCP members of the legislature should now be treated as members of the UDC.
You may kindly rearrange the sitting arrangements for the two MPs in recognition of our membership of the UDC”. BCP emerged from 2014 general elections badly bruised and managed only to win three constituencies.
Okavango MP Bagalatia Arone has since defected to the ruling Botswana Democratic Party and only Selebi-Phikwe MP Dithapelo Keorapetse and Ramotswa legislator Samuel Rantuana remain.
The duo, bring to 19 the number of UDC legislators.