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Preparations for the Presidential by -election kick off

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ECZ chairperson Ireen Mambilima
ECZ chairperson Ireen Mambilima

The Electoral Commission of Zambia has announced that preparations for the presidential by election? have commenced.

ECZ Chairperson Justice Ireen Mambilima told a media briefing today that the Commission will submit a proposed budget to the treasury once the mourning period is over.Justice Mambilima said the Commission has started in earnest preparing for the by election by holding internal meeting ahead of the by election.She said a detailed election programme will be availed to members of the public after the mourning period.

Justice Mambilima is confident that the Commission will organise successful presidential by election.

According to the Zambian Constitution, a presidential by election will have to be held within 90 days.

36 COMMENTS

    • Ba Mushota, is Zambia a monarch??? Any credible person can be chosen to lead and finish what President Sata started. And preferably someone he trusted like Edgar Lungu.

    • Who is Mulenga Sata iwe outkast Mushota?
      PF will be buried with Sata.
      The next president will come from the opposition. Zambians have been DON’T KUBEBARED by the PF and the memories are still fresh. Violence, intolerance, oppression, lies, deceit, corruption, tribalism, intimidation, bribery, arrogance, abrogation of the laws and constitution of Zambia, etc. Kuya bebele. This is our chance as Zambians to put in people who will be tolerant to others, will listen to the cries of the people and will rule according to the law.

    • PF may have a chance if Edgar Lungu is the presidential candidate. Other than that, kuya bebele. Sata knew why he appointed him as Acting President. They can get a sympathy vote with Edgar.

    • You said the same thing about Michael Sata pre 2011

      Mr Kambwili once said, presidents are born, and there is nothing you can do about it

      I know you don’t want to hear this but Mulenga Sata has a tribe behind him, not some
      lazy immigrants like you making their voice through LT.
      The Bemba tribe will be behind him with a weapon in the forma vote.

      Silly as it may sound you will learn to accept that 3 months from now.

      The vote talks not a nonentity immigrant hiding in in South Africa. You are only less than 1000 miles
      What are you doing there contributing to the economy of South Africa who careless less about you

      Go home and speak with your vote

      Thanks

    • @Ka Mushota we ch!ipuba weeee. Which immigrant are talking about? Dont be misled by my ID name you moron. I am very much Zambian. Your Mulenga Sata will NEVER be president of this country. He will be president of your stup1ty family or your bemba tribe, NOT Zambia. Imbeccile Mushota!!!!!

    • Ba Mushota mwechipuba mwe. Ikalinifye. Continue dreaming. Only in your dirty dreams will Mulenga Sata rule this country. Continue wiping old people’s arsses wherever you are.

    • You mean some people still argue with Mushota? They don’t know that it’s dala to say those things so you can reply? I don’t think Mushota is the foo.l here.

    • Madam Mushota,, are you bipolar by any chance? I have seen a number of your comments and they seem not to come from a single head. so to speak. Perhaps it’s by design??

  1. Let us a consensus on a selective constitution amendment by Parliament selectively, only on the clause that deals with Parentage to allow all the contestants to compete on substance. Only under the condition of ushering-in a new people’s driven referendum-approved one before 2016 general election.

  2. MM Le Grand Patron Wa Zabanga what is your problem? who do you have in mind iwe? Let others talk about their candidate. Enlighten me about your candidate?

  3. Y SHUD U MENTION BEMBA’S U *****S ATTACKING MUSHOTA.U MEAN U KANT JUST DEBATE WITHOUT MENTIONING TRIBE.LEAVE THE BEMBA’S OUT OF MULENGA SATA’S IMATURITY.

  4. For us the masses, the most important in this election is to demolish the evil cartel and all good shall follow. Any presidential candidate who is cartel aligned will be de-campaigned heavily.

  5. Actually, the two saved the day: Scott and the AG. As for the issue at hand, we need a level playing field. Scott, Mulenga or any other aspirant must contend, provided that we remove the obnoxious Parent Clause for the purpose of the Presidential bye-election in January, 2015. Let all these good candidates compete on their credibility

    • I am with you!

      This stone age parantage clause must be done away with. It was burried with FTJ who brought it. Asha!

      Viva G Scott!

    • So you now want to remove even the little bit of the constitution that protects your self-governance?
      Other nations, have tightened up, ensuring they are never ruled by someone with foreign allegianaces, and you idyo.ts want to open the door to the whole world? Imwe ati as long as he has credibility.

      No self-love Zambians! Or do you think a black Zambian whose village and ancestral home can be pin-pointed on a map is not good enough?
      Sha!

  6. “MM Le Grand Patron Wa Zabanga” aka A. Chipipa, don’t think we don’t you because we never comment on your posts. You talk ill of Bembas and yet Bembas kept you in their homes when you came to the western world. Your hatred will never take you anyway. Next time I will call you and tell you off!

  7. Kwena apa my vote will go for mama Dr. C. Kaseba Sata as President. She will finish Ba Mudala besu, ba Sata was to finish.

  8. Was Saulosi the deceased I wonder. He’s been quiet for a number of continuously countable days since a certain happening. #justathought

  9. Quick question, has lungu got kidney problems? If that’s true then he is out of the race (Malfunctioning kidneys are no joke, as a fellow human I feel for him). Young Sata has already committed political suicide. That lives Dr Kaseba, Neckless Kambwili and Scott as I predicated. This is getting interesting every day (the UK might fund the election if watchdog are telling the truth). The numbers are starting to add up now and the preferred pf candidate is availing he or herself bit by bit. The next few days will bring change to Zambia most common people have never experienced before. Still waiting to see Chikwanda and mr industrial clusters raw in or this.

    • I really don’t get you people that espouse the former first lady as a contender. I find it perplexing. Why? We are not a kingdom or chiefdom. Just because her husband was president, she should be next???

      Also, the UK funding your elections is embarrassing and comes with conditions – further colonizing you!
      As someone said, we can hold an election using twigs and leaves if we have to.

      Stop adoring

  10. Ba Zabanga naimwe ati Edgar Lungu. How can you support his candidature when he was at one time blacklisted by LAZ for chewing money for his clients. You do not follow affairs of Zambia ba Zabanga

  11. I am calling upon all UPND supporters outside Zambia to make arrangements to support the party financially and adjust your leave plans so that you can be home in January to vote as a Zambian. We all want to participate in this election so ECZ should open the doors to all of us to register until two weeks before elections.

  12. Stop and Think, were we have come from and were we are going as a great nation and PF as a ruling party. We built PF today and we should make it grow beyond Michae.

  13. Even if all UPND supporters abroad come to vote in January,HH can’t win.this man is not liked in Luapula,Northern,Muchinga,CB,Lusaka,Eastern,central and this where majority voters are!if UPND had Mazoka or Nkombo today,defeating this weak PF now would’ve been simple!so with HH on UPND ticket,PF will win,MARK MY WORDS!just interview some voters on streets in mentioned provinces and u’ll prove it that HH is not liked by many!

    • Without malice or any other bad ideas my Colleague you have put it right.It will be difficult for HH and UPND to break the cultural jinx among the provinces you have mentioned to win.
      There is a sympathy vote that might come in as well.Remember my colleague 2008 when we lost Republican President Levy Mwanawasa.MMD got the sympathy votes by bringing in Rupiah Banda as our Republican President.
      Have a nice day and God Bless you.

  14. Those saying Mulenga Sata will be next president just because of the bemba vote are those living outside Zambia. Sata was not brought in by the bemba vote, if that was the case he would have won the presidency the first time he stood and thoughout his opponents used to be non-bemba. Sata only won after swallowing his bemba tribe. Just wait now, the rest of the country knows how useless and incompetent and tribal and thankless bemba leaders are. January is coming, there is even no need arguing over this. That is why PF cadres are protesting over the firing of Edgar Lungu because they know no bemba in PF can ever win an election again, unless you want to turn into rebels and secede your 3 provinces from rest of the country. Edgar Lungu was your best chance! Just enjoy your finkubala!

  15. These *****s hallucinating about Mulenga Sata like the biatchi Mushota ought to be examined at Chainama Mental Hospital because they make me wanna puke, seriously. There must be something inherently wrong to think so low. Why is it OK for the whole country to vote for your Congolese thief FTJ but yet you Bembas find it a problem to vote for someone be it a Tumbuka, Luvale, Chikunda etc? Who in this case is a tribalist because us we gave your thieving son TFJ votes but you will not cast votes for us? I can bet you *****s like Mushota have never voted in their lives but want to push someone down our throats. Tell me what degree and from what institution your Mulenga has and perhaps we can have a discussion.

  16. PEOPLE HAVE NOT FORGETTEN HOW TRIBAL SATA WAS ON APPOINTMENTS, ALL IMPORTANT POSITIONS WENT TO THE BEMBA CLICK. ITS TIME FOR PAY BACK AND PEOPLE SHOULD ANALYSE THE PF CRITICALLY.
    I FOR ONE DID NOT LIKE SATA APPOINTMENTS LET US BE FACTUAL THE MAN WAS VERY DIVICESIVE AND WE SHOULD NOT FORGET JUST BECAUSE HE HAS GONE NO. REFLECT ON IT AND MAKE WISE DECISION. LET US TRY YOUNG AND ENERGETIC LEADERS THIS TIME.

  17. ‘She said a detailed election programme will be availed to members of the public after the mourning period.’

    BUT

    Justice Mambilima, ma’am, there is no mourning period. Crazy Scott and his gang are causing trouble by upsetting factions. ECZ should expect a lot of violence because PF will not let go of power. And they kind of need to. We don’t have confidence in them any more. They have ruined the mourning period.

    I think ECZ should be in talk with the Army in relation with declaring a state of emergency, instantaneously removing illegal Acting President, and PF. The Army should provide a caretaker gov’t over this period with immediate effect. Please call a General election at the earliest.

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