Stalemate at BMD after violent weekend

PIC: THALEFANG CHARLES
PIC: THALEFANG CHARLES

After the bloody weekend split, the two warring factions of the Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) have returned to their respective corners with neither willing to be the first to rush to the courts for relief.

Yesterday, political analyst Leonard Sesa told Mmegi that the reluctance was most likely because both camps “know they are somehow wrong”.

“The parties could have gotten an independent party to reconcile them and run the congress for them. As it stands it is a difficult situation, which will not see any of the parties rush to court, as they both know they are somehow at fault,” he said.

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