Patriotic Front acting president Given Lubinda has announced the launch of the PF Pamodzi Alliance, signalling a political shift away from the Tonse Alliance structure associated with Brian Mundubile.
Lubinda made the declaration after meetings held by PF leadership structures over the weekend. Addressing supporters, he said the party’s Council of Leaders and Central Committee had directed that a new alliance platform be presented to the public following internal consultations on the party’s political direction.
He told the gathering that the decision followed deliberations held on Sunday and Monday, during which the leadership resolved that the alliance structure linked to Tonse would no longer represent the direction being taken by PF and its partners.
Lubinda said he had been instructed to communicate the decision publicly and make clear that the political formation being introduced would now operate under the banner PF Pamodzi Alliance.
Standing before supporters and representatives of several organisations aligned with the opposition bloc, Lubinda described the alliance as a broad coalition bringing together political parties, civic groups and grassroots supporters.
The PF acting president acknowledged members of what he called the Green Ghosts, political parties working with the coalition and civil society organisations associated with the alliance platform. He said the groups had been involved in discussions that led to the decision to launch the new alliance structure.
Lubinda told supporters that the announcement marked a clear transition away from the Tonse Alliance framework that had previously been associated with opposition cooperation. His remarks placed the new alliance as the political vehicle through which the coalition intends to mobilise ahead of the 13 August general election.
He said the leadership had taken the position that the alliance required a structure capable of bringing together different political actors under a single banner while maintaining coordination among the participating organisations.
The launch of the PF Pamodzi Alliance was presented as the outcome of those discussions.
Lubinda formally introduced the coalition under the new name during the gathering, declaring it the platform under which the alliance would now organise its political activities.
The PF acting president said the alliance would mobilise supporters across the country as preparations for the election intensify, with the coalition bringing together political parties, civic organisations and grassroots supporters aligned with the bloc.
His announcement marked the first public presentation of the PF Pamodzi Alliance, positioning it as the structure through which the coalition intends to coordinate its activities moving toward the national polls.
PF we miss you. Breakfast mealie meal was K130 and Roller meal was K90 during your reign. Even Zesco units were not sprinting during PF time
And they left Nkongole like they were getting money from a rich uncle.
Which country does not have nkhongole sure? You are in those embassies representing us but blank as ever.
We are joining this alliance
What is an alliance? A new name for the same old party that cant organise itself? What is the UPND’S alliance?
Anyway good luck Lubinda. You look like a good disciple of ECL. Start campaigning now.
Unga at what price in September? Goodbye to cholera in Z?
Shaiba laws to die? Street vending to be reorganized?
DeadNBC to be freed?
Green Ghosts…Ghost by definition can mean a dead spirit in limbo,,, Epo mpelele
This constantly changing dynamics is doing us no good Just making the incumbent the sole candidate and not through popularity but by lack of an alternative
With the way you are being distracted, this innovative approach of trying this and that is okay.
PF is cool, it managed to keep the price of the staple food in check during their time; love them or hate them, you cant erase facts
How will you register your nominations as independents? Maybe Davis was right after all even though he does not speak that well
Desperate men like Lubinda do not have a life.
Do you have a life yourself you cowardest?