MPs should respect the ballot

It is not the membership of the contesting political parties that is responsible for the mischief that appears to have taken over the politicians. Clearly, it is a section of the ruling party parliamentarians who feel threatened by the possibility that the turmoil at the BDP could cost them their jobs who are responsible for the traffic between the old party and the Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD).

Similar traffic has occurred between the BNF and the BDP, more significantly between the BNF and the BCP.  It is not so much the political parties whose conscience we wish to question, for now.  It is far more bewildering that the individual parliamentarians play hop-scotch between political parties without considering the implications for the value and integrity of the voter's ballot.