Moswaane hails BPP transformation for UDC victory

The BPP, which is in a tripartite coalition of the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC), has for a long time suffered enormous electoral defeats in the general polls and was for decades without a single Member of Parliament (MP). The UDC is a coalition of the BPP, Botswana National Front (BNF) and Alliance for Progressives (AP). The BPP gained a legislator after Francistown West lawmaker Moswaane defected from the then-ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) in 2020. By then, the BPP gained a legislator after 35 years despite being one of the oldest political movements in the country.

The party has also been registering a single-digit number of councillors, especially in the North East District where it has a considerable following. Weighing on the party’s success at the last General Election that also ushered in the UDC to its historic attainment of state power, Moswaane credited the BPP’s president Motlatsi Molapise for a job well done. “When I joined the BPP, president Molapise launched a campaign to revive the party to fully prepare for the 2024 General Election. I was given the role of political education and I travelled around the country reviving our structures that were not fully functional and setting up others in places where they didn't exist,” said Moswaane. “I'm very happy because the UDC allocated us seven parliamentary seats and the BPP managed to win four of them including dethroning the BDP in Francistown East.”