In its original definition, it was a period between one monarchy and the rise of another. 'Inter' being Latin for 'between' and 'regnum' the same language for 'reign'. With the departure and return of those who formed the Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) and an increasingly inconclusive rumour mill over the BDP vice presidential successor and future president, the BDP is in a state of interregnum of its own. A state of interregnum as must be, has its own dynamics and at the end someone emerges with the crown. This calls for a careful management of such a state.
What then of my application of the interregnum to the state of the BDP?
The party's president is popular and still in complete control. The republic remains intact and there is no central committee election in the immediate vicinity. All these suggest continuity and no such 'between reigns', you may argue. The order of the current period and the strength of the leadership of the party breed this. Let us first turn to the presidency of Ian Khama and how it produces an interregnum.
