Extraordinary sights greeted viewers of the Prime TV News television channel on 8 April as President Edgar Lungu and United Party for National Development (UPND) leader Hakainde Hichilema took their motorcades to the annual Kuomboka celebration of the Lozi people in Western Province...
Disgruntled elements within the party will aim to unseat its perennially unsuccessful presidential candidate Hakainde Hichilema a Tonga-speaker from Southern Province who has led the party since 2006 when its founding president Anderson Mazoka died...
Lungu received just 17% of votes in Western Province while his main challenger Hakainde Hichilema of the United Party for National Development won 81...
But what the subsequent media coverage failed to make clear was that the election was so close that a victory for the opposition candidate Hakainde Hichilema would also have been within the PVT's margin of error...
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When UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema filed the petition on 19 August the Court had fourteen days under the constitution in which to hear arguments and to rule...
The Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) would have 30 days to organise a re-run of the poll in which Lungu narrowly defeated Hakainde Hichilema of the United Party for National Development (UPND)...
The electoral return match on 11 August between President Edgar Lungu of the governing Patriotic Front (PF) and Hakainde Hichilema of the United Party for National Development (UPND) shows every sign of being another cliff-hanger...
The Post had planned to run exposés of electoral malpractice with the opposition United Party for National Development after a series of meetings between M'membe and Dipak Patel a former Commerce Minister and current advisor to UPND leader and presidential candidate Hakainde Hichilema...
The contest between incumbent President Edgar Lungu of the Patriotic Front and his opponent Hakainde Hichilema of the United Party for National Development (UPND) was always going to be close...
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The presidential and general elections set for 11 August will see the main contest take place between Lungu and his Patriotic Front (PF) and Hakainde Hichilema and his United Party for National Development (UPND)...