BPF still eyes State power-Butale

Friday, February 10, 2023 | 100 Views |

Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) president, Biggie Butale, is adamant that it is the aim of any political party to attain State power.

He was responding to a question as to what really stands between the BPF and State power. He says any political party without that ambition ceases to exist in its form or maybe it will deviate and become a pressure group.

When the opposition BPF an offshoot of the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) was conceived in 2019, the aim was such that it should democratically oust the BDP from its decades in power.

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