MMD : Opposition Failure To Announce Candidates Is Sign Of Defeat

The ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) says the delay by the opposition political parties to announce their adopted parliamentary candidates is a sign of defeat.
MMD acting secretary general Chembe Nyangu wonders what has delayed the announcement of candidates by the opposition when they were pressurizing president Rupiah Banda to dissolve parliament and announce the date of elections.
Mr. Nyangu has questioned what the opposition political parties want to believe that 2011 is a year of elections for them to announce their candidates.
In an interview, Mr. Nyangu further questioned why the opposition is not ready when they were busy calling for announcement of the elections date.
Mr. Nyangu has since advised the opposition to come out in the open and announce their failure to participate in the forthcoming elections. But United Party for National Development (UPND) Vice President Richard Kapita says his party’s delay in announcing the adopted parliamentary candidates is a strategy to stop other political parties from picking its who have not been adopted.
And the UPND vice president has announced that the party, will today, 12th August, 2011 officially announce to the public the 150 adopted parliamentary and local government candidates for the forthcoming general elections.
Mr. Kapita says the party decided to take time to announce the adopted candidates because it knew the ruling MMD would have had approached its members to bribe them to join the party.
In an interview with QFM, Mr. Kapita says the list of adopted candidates to be announced will be the genuine one unlike speculations on some candidates who have not even been adopted by the party.
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