The ruling Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD) in Lusaka says it has embarked on a new strategy that would increase focus on improved performance ahead of the 2011 presidential polls.
MMD Lusaka District Chairman, Paul Chihande, said the ruling party is determined to become more organised to secure victory in the next general elections.
Mr Chihande declared that the party has become a ‘hot iron and a force to reckon with’ after the 2006 tripartite polls because the outcome of the elections enabled it to identify weaknesses and strengths.
Mr Chihande was speaking in Lusaka today in Chawama Compound when he introduced the MMD Acting Chawama Constituency Chairman Trymore Mwenda.
Mr Mwenda takes over from Kellys Siame, who is now serving a suspension from the MMD party for alleged gross indiscipline and insubordination contrary to party regulations.
MMD Lusaka District chairman disclosed that the ruling party is also reorganising all the party structures at ward, branch and constituency levels.
He said from Chawama, the party would go to Kanyama, Matero, Mandevu, Munali, Kabwata and Lusaka Central.
And Acting Chairman, Mr Mwenda, appealed to the opposition to work hand in hand with the MMD in an effort to improving the lives of the ordinary citizens.
Mr. Mwenda noted that development goes beyond partisan politics hence the need for the opposition and the ruling party to work together in the implementation of economic policies.
2011 is a “must win” for the MMD. Let there be continuous improvements, selflessness and application of strategic value based vestures in campaign and grassroot real politics is the way henceforth.In the face of immeasurable public goodwwill,the future is very bright. Structures exist at every level, reactivation in a changed dispensation calls for practical realignment bottom-up.MMD the national party is faced with disillusioned opponents deeply entrenched in politics of localism and sectionalism premised on cheap and unattainable populism without national constituency.
Its good MMD has realised tht they have completely lost grip in Lusaka hence the need 2 embark on massive campaign strategies so is PF loosing touch wit reality!
Any sane person wld nt support MMD in Lusaka bcoz they have simply failed the pipo.Bad roads and poor drainage networks r some of the many areas MMD as a Party in Govt has failed.
Perfecting result oriented public policies for the “common good” is a must.Focus on the urban and rural constituencies with tangible citizen empowerments among the ingenious in urban cost centers, while accelerating support of rural agricultural mechanization will consolidate constituencies beyond 2011.Properly managed vestures in Agriculture, science and technology that will be converting our young Graduates into self entrepreneurs should be prioritized.Its time we pursued Zambian centric prosperity and modernization with some ambitious strategies.
#1 is a dreamer.Where do u live?Put your ears 2 the ground.In 2011 MMD wld hav been in power for 20 yrs and already pipo r sick and tired of their politics of promisory notes.They have taken pipo 4 granted,morever MMD is cracking,there shall b MMD 1 & MMD 2 come convention.
#2,Its everywhere and not just Lusaka. These chaps need to know that its not just getting organised to secure victory. We want to see development woo chaps.
Indeed # 3 is a dreamer! Good policies but poor implimitation.Poor finishing niye ilenga…
People like #1 need to be kept away from Levy and MMD at all cost because they are the ones feeding Levy with wrong data that all is well and yet people are jumping out of the moving train.Time is ticking slowly but surely.Where will VJ be in 2011?
Bhaps,
The democracy MMD has fostered space for your views too. Good luck if you have more effective mechanics in measuring the country wide grassroot views. Winning elections is not based on your confusion of seemingly fallacies: ecological and individualistic fallacies. If you are better vested in dynamics of Grassroots & elections,i hope you factor in your “locus problem” as level of analysis.Catch voters’ perceptions, attitudes, or behavior at national.Deriving a national wide electoral mandate is a complicated undertaking that transcends cheap perceptions you hold in self comforting fantasy. People’s decision for holistic structural change is premise on critical mass that secured them.
I think for democracy to work we need a change of power. We dont want the MMD to be the Zambian version of South Africa’s ANC. We dont want power to remain in the grips of the same people, this is no longer the stone age. Democracy needs power change to work effectively.
The democracy MMD has brought and fostered, has enough space for your views too and self comforting fantasy.
Crazy_Zambian,
The process of Democracy is not anchored on what “you as cray ” wants or how long a party has ruled but sustainable voter consensus and voter appeal. In Botswana, the ruling Botswana Democratic Party has ruled since independence yet they are a model of democracy far better than the USA and Britain where Brown and Bush rule without mandates.
What other weakness apart from poverty, scandals, poor management of resources. How can places like Zambia with such abundance of water still have water shortages? One other weakness MMD you have right now is that people are getting more enlightened due to intermingling and education. So they know when you do things right and when you things wrong like right now. They know when you practice tribalism, and when you are lying to them. Eventually even those in Eastern province that you can lie to to vote for Vera will see thru your lies. So, you should not just worry about LSK, worry about Zambia as a whole. Why do think Katele is not speaking on behalf of your party?
#11 Pragmatist
Im sure you’re familiar with the phrase
“power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely”
That’ll give you something to think about.
Good day sir 😀
#12, walasa.
Pragmatist,what democracy has MMD afforded us if MMD itself cannot practice intra party democracy by punishing pipo like chumbwe & ms moonga for speaking their minds?
Politics is about #’s and capitalising on opponents weaknesses by doing tht which the masses desire.
Right on target#8. MMD has no opposition since all the so called parties are not a result of critical mass, rather just frustrated individual creations. UPND was a bit different until Andy became the party and now even when he is gone, his shadow keeps lurking giving it a regional perception. As for PF, the thuggery in it says much about the party. The massive confusion, lack of internal democracy and “dying” hilarious leadership makes it impossible to go beyond Lusaka’s thoughtless and bizarre chibuku driven voting patterns. On the other hand UNIP is a victim of opportunism and poverty. I see MMD decades ahead.
All,
Remember that your views that MMD is disintegrating are irrational “axioms”-untested statements or assumptions about a phenomenon in question. FYI, institutional structural change does not come in a valley of illusions but mobilization headed by structured authentic leadership publicly deemed alternative to the status core.In the absence of such, to consolidate an across the board “critical mass” is a “fallacy of reification”.Vindicate me come 2011.
I enjoyed your views though concerned with your disillusions.More it was good to read your tortuous mind. Good weekend & peace to y’all.
#15 are you an academician?Teach #1!
Good wknd 2 u 2 pragmatist.Its always good 2 educate one another & the masses at large on issues affecting our beloved nation.
Zambia needs a new breeze of leadership tht will deliver this nation econ.and socially.Isnt it a parodox tht we r poor in a land of pretty?
Yes poor we are in a land of pletty.We lack a visionary leadership.2011 we are going 4ward and nt bckwards…Gudnite to u all.
#17 Pragmatist, my good friend, your heart is in the right place but you seem to miss one very crucial point. Remember it was MMD who inflicted Chiluba on us – not UPND. With the constitution as it stands now, we will still be at the mercy of the next president. At the moment we are at the mercy of Levy, but he is not a killer. The next president may even be MMD but he could be an Idi Amin and by virtue of all the power vested in him, he could bring the whole Zambian ‘economic project’ to an end and declare himself wamuyaya (life president). For 27 year we had a life president (Kaunda), but he was a relatively good man. What guarantee do we have against electing an Idi Amin next time?
I always draw strength from countries like India and some Caribbean countries like Jamaica, Barbados, etc, which are third world countries but have had democracy for over forty years! The only thing common between them is that they do not have a presidential style of government. Instead they all have a Westminster style of government.
Ba Chitapankwa(21),
Your expressed views to brother Pragmatist # 17 are nothing but fear without supportive variables.Zambia has institutional structures that does not accommodate imperial presidency prone of turning autocratic come what may.Revisit your lectures on dictatorship and institutions under Political Economies and functional Democracy POLS 5843,POLS 5183, POLS 5283 and POLS 5543. These will remind you that Zambia has diluted such space of stagging tyranny.Today real power is not absolutely with Mwanawasa but silent and background brains behind MMD. Even their nominee will be vetted by the same and they already know who it is. Fear not though MMD will reign come 2011.
Editor
Surely you mean you have no other items to put as main headline???
I enjoy following ‘politics’ back home, but not the manner in which you are giving us one sided stories. Even if your allegiance is to the named party try to be balanced and realise that there are more important items out there to be headlines. This headline should just be like any other ‘by the way’ item.
Arise and position yourselves meaningfully.While you are busy off tangent,your friends in the emerging leadership team are consolidating their value for the ultimate leadership roles.If not careful we risk seeing an oligarchy system in Zambia beyond 2015.The debate style here and in opposing parties on the ground leaves some serious intellectual leadership gaps ideal in the winning political frontier.
Our const.is to blame for the problems we r facing.It is no doubt tht
PF is falling harder than never before in its short history. Prior to 2006 elections, I told my VERY CLOSE PF educated cadres, most of whom we were together with at UNZA, (1988-1991) that PF would not get to plot one. They put there money on PF but alas the results came. I later told them to tell their PF boss to now go and camp in RURAL ZAMBIA if he has to take it in 2011 as he is comfortable in URBAN ZAMBIA. This has not happened. MMD in rural ZED is strong (NOTORIOUS FACT)and some CHIBUKU OVERZEALOUS BOYS who gave PF a vote in URBAN ZED have since changed their minds for MMD. Note that its not MMD for 20 years as such, FTJ’s 10 years was MMD 1, LPM’s 10 years is MMD 2, COME 2011, MMD 3.
The best way for a ruling party to win elections is by bringing development,improving peoples lives and to successfully implement their manifesto on which they were elected.Partizan politics could fail us and its too early to talk about partizan politcs
the mwanawasa administration has rejuvenated MMD, they started from the rural areas and now they are working their way into urban areas it looks grim for other parties because come 2011 they will seize the day. Whilst im at it i would like to denounce this website LT as politically suspicious, on a certain blog i aired my views with such aplomb that i could not have my comments posted even when there were less than 50 comments posted. LT i demand an explanation.
“The best is yet to come.”
Can someone start doing the real OPINION POLLS in Zambia. We need to know what sort of people would vote for the MMD in Lusaka and indeed anyother town in Zambia; whether they have gone past Grade 7, 9 or reached Grade 12; whether they have been to college or university; whether they are Lozi related , Kaonde, Luvale, Tonga, etc; and lastly whether have a job or not.
Since ZNBC has failed us MUVI TV can be posting the results together with some newspapers.
This will help our politicians to know how to campaign properly.
hhehhehhehhe [you must be truly Tonga judging from the number of the tonga-invented-letter-to-the-english-alphabet in your name. Incidentally, are you related to Haggai and Habbakkuk?], opinion polls are a good way of gauging your political support, but most of them have one fundamental flaw: statistical bias and lack of representativeness. And they are done by journalists like the Post Newspapers who do not even know the definition of statistical bias.
True #31 in everything you wrote: I am very “mu-Tonga” and I agree on your views regarding the Post Newspaper people. The sad thing about the POST is that they appear to have preconceive arguments in their writings – maybe with an aim to make their readership to be duped or led into thinking that their opinion is the reality on the ground.
However, I have great respect on the way they, the POST, try to be inclusive of the general picture about Zambian issues and world over.
#23 Senior Citizen. I based my views on history. As I said, Chiluba came out of MMD. He was a little tyrant under whose leadership a lot of human rights violations were committed. Surely we can’t have forgotten already. Vetting a leader is not in itself a guarantee. I do not mean to be pessimistic but I fear the undoing of all the good that has been done so far. Personally, I don’t care which party is in power as long as Zambians continue to enjoy their had won freedoms and the road to economic development is not impeded by a dictator.
Its good you are geeting organised.its evident that you were disorganised and are still organised. I believe by 2011, you would have been in gov’t for 20 years. How much is the fuel?what have you done for the defence?You like it when they are litter all over the roads from Kanyama, chawama,name all the shanties.People who are supposed to protect your fattening jobs? how much do prepare for their future and they have dedicated their lives to the true service of the country?Are you aware that some do not even know where to go after 35 years of service?Do you know that some work with their grand children? Be serious!
Thats the way it goes!lets help these people. its true they have been reduced to beggers.Some of their bosses are too old to fight.I will personally take interest when am home in june. You are right bro!
Maybe they are not well represented. Some are a sorry sight after retirement. They need a preparatory package! Here in Australia, they build them houses, thats apart from the pension and they are fuzed in different public utilities.What is the qualification to be a soldier in zambia, does anybody know?
lets help them! today they are very educated and very proffessional.All the old guns are been phased out by end of this year. I hear they are resisting change.Let MMD organise all areas, we have alot to do in our country. we don’t like it to comment from the terraces.
MMD are a collection of criminals masquarading as a political party. There is no question that their efforts are being strengthened by neo-liberal powers and policies backed by the OP whose mandate is to rig all presidential polls at any cost to ensure that there is a new culture of what Latin America used to be decades ago. This is when all citizens were subject to oppressive governments in the name of development and democracy! We must get rid of the MMD and its chief hoods.