BDP races against time to find candidate :: Mmegi Online

FRANCISTOWN: With only two weeks before the deadline for nomination of candidates, Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) is racing against time to identify a candidate to represent the party at the upcoming Moselewapula by-election scheduled for July 30, 2022.

Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) this week set July 7, 2022 and July 30, 2022 as the dates for nomination of candidates and by-election respectively, but BDP was Wednesday still undecided on when it will hold primary election.

The Moselewapula ward became vacant following the death of Reuben Ketlhoilwe of the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) in May after a long battle with cancer. Ketlhoilwe, a Botswana Congress Party (BCP) activist, was deployed by the UDC to represent them in the 2019 general elections following the former’s decision to join the latter in 2017.

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BDP races against time to find candidate

FRANCISTOWN: With only two weeks before the deadline for nomination of candidates, Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) is racing against time to identify a candidate to represent the party at the upcoming Moselewapula by-election scheduled for July 30, 2022.

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