UDC condemns BCP approach to cooperation talks

This is despite the fact the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) has indicated that it will make its individual submissions at the forum. The forum, which is made up of the Alliance for Progressive (AP), Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) and the UDC is tasked with coordinating opposition cooperation talks for the 2024 general election.

Through the forum, opposition parties want to explore a working arrangement that can help them unseat the ruling party from power. The BCP is part of the UDC together with the Botswana People’s Party (BPP) and the Botswana National Front (BNF). On Wednesday, the BCP spokesperson Mpho Pheko told Mmegi that the BCP president Dumelang Saleshando attended a meeting chaired by Margaret Nasha to address progress on opposition cooperation talks for the 2024 general election. She added that it was agreed that the parties would present their proposals the "cooperation framework" for 2024. Nasha of the AP is the coordinator of the forum. “The agreed deadline is May 3rd, 2022 and we wish to report that the BCP will submit (proposal on the kind of working arrangement the BCP wants opposition parties to adopt at the 2024 general election) before the agreed deadline,” Pheko told Mmegi on Tuesday. Pheko said the BCP would be making its individual submissions at the forum.