Socialist Party -SP- has accused ruling United Party for National Development –UPND- of engaging in electoral violence during the recently held local government by-elections in various parts of the country.
Party National Youth Chairperson, Simon Mulenga alleges that despite his party’s victory in the Kapanda ward by-election in Kasama district, Northern Province, UPND engaged in electoral violence that disrupted their campaigns in many areas.
He says the campaigns were unfair to the opposition who were denied many privileges such as campaigning.
Speaking in an exclusive interview, Mr. Mulenga says the violence that the UPND is allegedly exhibiting will make them lose popularity just like the previous regimes.
Those that took party in the by-elections were Ronald Mulenga from Socialist Party who got eight hundred and ninety votes, Moses Kapambwe from UPND who got five hundred and seventy-eight votes, Amos Chishala from Patriotic Front Party who got three hundred and thirty-five votes, Merge Zambia got ninety-nine votes, Leadership Movement party got nine votes, while the rejected votes were forty-one.
The Kapanda ward by-election came about after the elected councillor of the PF was employed in Government.
