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Concerns Over Electoral Commission's Independence in Zambian Elections

Latest Tanzania politics news · Concerns Over Electoral Commission's Independence in Za… explained · updated Aug 11, 2026 · politics news · government · policy

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  • Hichilema wants five more years after his 2021 landslide win over Lungu on a platform of change.
  • On the presidential ballot itself, gender representivity is limited: of the 14 candidates cleared by the electoral commission, only one is a woman – independent Given Katuta.
  • Where I work, for example, the money we are getting paid is not enough and we cannot sustain our lives.” Kangwa explains that he was paid about 3,000 kwacha ($157; £117) a month, which is barely enough to cover food.
  • Macroeconomic gains matter less than the cost of cooking oil, for example, which has risen by more than 70% over the past five years.
  • The unemployment rate as measured by the statistics agency has registered a slight fall from 13% to 11% over the last four years.

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Linda Kasonde, human rights activist and former president of the Law Association of Zambia, has questioned the composition of the electoral commission. 'In terms of the constitution of the electoral commission itself, a number of the members of the commission are actually politically aligned to the incumbent ruling party and are not seen to be independent.'

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