Seven constituencies that crushed AP, BCP
Friday, May 05, 2023 | 900 Views |

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The development led to Alliance for Progressives (AP) deserting cooperation talks with Botswana Congress Party (BCP) and Botswana Labour Party (BLP) to seek an alternate one with Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC).
The constituencies which left the trio deadlocked for four months are Gaborone Central, Mogoditshane, Tati West, Nata-Gweta, Francistown West, Gaborone North and Lerala/Maunatlala. The three parties started talks in September 2022 and the intention was to have concluded them within 10 weeks meaning the process should have come to a conclusion in December 2022.
For a fact, in a democratic society such as Botswana, the media plays a crucial role of being watchdog, holding the powerful to account and exposing all possible wrongdoing for the benefit of the public.There has been a nagging question about who watches the watchdog after all? Perhaps, the investigations into alleged wrongful acts implicating those supposed to be playing the watchdog role will shed more light into what has happened such that the...