This means that a PVT is likely to be of little use in a case like Zambia where the gap between the two candidates was just three points and President Edgar Lungu secured a first round victory by just 0...
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There is now no obstacle to Edgar Lungu being sworn in as President of Zambia on 13 September...
Together with fellow State House aide Kaizar Zulu he had played a crucial role in securing President Edgar Lungu's controversial electoral victory earlier in the month overseeing the militant Patriotic Front (PF) youths who were accused of intimidating election officers and voters in polling stations in Lusaka and elsewhere (AC Vol 57 No 17 Lungu's victory under fire)...
Most pundits think that the opposition petition submitted to the Constitutional Court challenging President Edgar Lungu's much criticised election victory has only a slim chance of success...
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...
Lungu's liberties with democracy President Edgar Lungu's strategy for holding on to power is attracting criticism from many key donors...
President Edgar Lungu wishes to keep The Post the newspaper and news website which is his declared opponent closed until after the 11 August election say sources close to State House (AC Vol 57 No 14 A close political race gets angrier)...
Most people in Lusaka see Kaizar Zulu merely as President Edgar Lungu's State House sidekick but as the top aide puts it himself nobody gets to see his boss without his say-so...
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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Although the Post was seen as supportive of the PF government under President Michael Sata it opposed Edgar Lungu's ascendancy to the Presidency in 2015 which seems to have triggered the paper's current problems...
Two people were killed and many more injured before President Edgar Lungu restored order by deploying 1 000 police officers and 500 soldiers to the city's slums...