BNF vs BCP: Who really is bigger?
Friday, January 27, 2012
Now my friend Olebile Sikwane prompted this. He no doubt is one of the most intelligent youth of this generation. Olebile texted to make his point in response to my position that the BNF is bigger than the BCP right in the middle of the night, 23:59 hrs to be precise. He disagreed; not without ground. This I will address since it appears a host of other people share his views, particularly in the green/lime camp. "Maloro, I am reading your BMD article in the Mmegi, while it is a good article I am disturbed by the mistake that you too seem to make that BNF is bigger than BCP, despite the fact that we have been voted by 90 000, BNF by 60 000 with 89 councilors and while BNF got 62, we have 5 MPs BNF has 6 (Rammidi included) who is big really? Or you meant by age?"
Sikwane asked meaningful questions. His statistics, which seems to be what everyone at BCP is using, are challengeable. Even if the BCP had acquired more popular vote than the BNF they would only be the party with the majority, not the larger party.
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