BCP still hopeful of new coalition :: Mmegi Online

With the 2024 General Election near and their once promising coalition with Alliance for Progressives (AP) having failed, outgoing Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) affiliate Botswana Congress Party (BCP) says they are now looking for stakeholders that might be accommodative to using their BCP symbol.

After hosting a Leadership Forum in Palapye last weekend, the BCP is looking forward to salvaging something from what is left with their partners Botswana Labour Party (BLP) and the AP faction led by former Mogoditshane legislator Sedirwa Kgoroba. The latter has since sworn loyalty to the party led by Maun West Member of Parliament (MP) Dumelang Saleshando.

BCP in the past swallowed other parties like Botswana Alliance Movement (BAM), National Democratic Front (NDF), and Marx, Engel, Lenin and Stalin (MELS) movement but still retained its name.

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