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Hichilema's much harder second act (opens the original)
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The 60 000-capacity National Heroes Stadium in Lusaka was packed. A sea of red swept across the stands as ruling party supporters sang, waved party flags and cheered. At the centre of the spectacle stood the 64-year-old Hakainde Hichilema, taking the oath of office for a second term as Zambia's president. But beneath the colour and celebration lay a more complicated political picture. Hichilema enters his second term after securing a decisive victory over his main challenger, Brian Mundubile. Of
Judge the election, not the winner (opens the original)
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There is a recurring tendency in African election analysis to treat an opposition victory as evidence that an election was credible, while an incumbent’s victory is often met with immediate suspicion. When the opposition wins, some analysts and commentators point to the result itself as confirmation that the system worked. When the incumbent wins, however, the same system can suddenly be viewed with doubt. That is the wrong standard by which to judge an election. On 13 August, Zambia held its ei
How Hakainde Hichilema bagged second term in Zambia polls (opens the original)
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Zambia’s president Hakainde Hichilema this week secured a second term with 60% of the vote and, in the process, overturned one of the key pre-election assumptions: that economic pain, particularly in the cities, would translate into a decisive rejection of his government. The 13 August election was widely seen as a referendum on Hichilema’s economic reforms, which included cuts to government subsidies on fuel and electricity and triggered a jump in the cost of living. Going into the election, th
Two-horse race to Zambian August poll (opens the original)
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Zambia heads to a general election on 13 August, with incumbent Hakainde Hichilema expected to secure a second term.But the opposition is seeking to turn voter frustration over the high cost of living into a campaign against the incumbent. Fourteen candidates have lined up but in reality, it is a two-horse race between Hichilema of the United Party for National Development (UPND) and Brian Mundubile of the Tonse Alliance (TA), a faction that emerged out of the former ruling Patriotic Front (PF)
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