The BDP manipulated the process, utilised government resources, manipulated government institutions consequently it manipulated the electoral system and "won": a landslide. This scenario is painful, and will go a long way in under developing this country. The working people, poor peasants and youth have suffered for long, it is time the political and economic system are changed. The BDP owes its success largely to the split caused by the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) when it broke away from the Botswana National Front (BNF).
This split has weakened the social democratic forces, that were close to toppling the BDP through the ballot box owing to the fact that prior to the split the BNF had 13 from a total of 40 parliamentary seats. They had financial sponsors and had enough resources and manpower, to match the ruling party. After this split constituencies were increased to 57 and yet the combined BNF and BCP seats failed to reach the 13 seats they achieved when they were still together. This gives a voters an impression that the opposition is irresponsible, and yet the truth is that it is the petty bourgeois politics which are useless. MELS must expose this situation; unless this dilemma is exposed, the voter will keep on playing games of choosing between BNF and BCP, thus delaying revolutionaries from taking over from the ruling BDP. The split within the BNF was caused by the friends of the BDP, and was made possible because the social democratic politicians are purchasable. The social democratic politicians are not principled, they are not guided by any programme of liberation, to them power is meaningful if it is in their individual hands at all cost - for a progressive voter to remain behind them, is just assisting the BDP to remain in power. In short BDP victory must be blamed on BCP and BNF. Both of them are stagnant.
