Moatlhodi saga portrays the BDP as undemocratic

A majority win by a party in general elections legitimises a democratic government; a majority win in the primary elections legitimises the candidate as a popular representative of the party. What the general and primary elections do, is to demonstrate the participation of people in the government process, in theory and practice.

In the aftermath of Honourable Pono Moatlhodi's recall from contesting the 2009  elections, a caller in the Masa-a-sele, Radio Botswana Programme, justified the recall of the MP on the cynical allegation that the BDP had the right to do so, because it was they who had sponsored him as a candidate.