BDP youth committee resign En-Masse

The party's National Youth Executive Committee has resigned from the party to join the newly formed Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD). The resignation of seven members brings the total number of NYEC members who have thus far resigned to 10 which makes more than half of the committee. In line with the party constitution, the members cannot be replaced and this effectively means that BDP will not have a NYEC until June 17, when the party youth elect new representatives.  The resignations appear to have been deliberately timed to follow immediately after the National Council meet over the weekend.

"We feel that internal democracy is no longer existent in the BDP. We believe that democracy first has to be internal then national. The time to act to save democracy is now," said current NYEC chair,  Armstrong Dikgafela.