The Electoral Commission of Zambia has so far announced results for 128 of 156 constituencies with UPND's Hakainde Hichilema maintaining a massive lead by 860,166 votes which his rival President Edgar Lungu cannot catch. Meanwhile, there was commotion at Mulungushi International Conference Centre this evening when a visibly intoxicated PF MCC Paul Moonga disrupted proceedings...

THE United Party for National Development has won 22 local government seats out of 30 in Luanshya District of the Copperbelt. And former Luanshya Mayor Nathan Chanda and his former deputy Mayor Golden Mulenga have both lost the Roan and Luanshya Central Constituencies, respectively. Meanwhile, the UPND won the Luanshya District Mayoral position, while Independent...

The Electoral Commission of Zambia has announced results for 40 more of the 156 constituencies with UPND's Hakainde Hichilema maintaining a comfortable lead by 769,806 votes. When the first part of this session begun at 12:30 hours, the commission announced that it would give out results for 62 constituencies in total. ECZ explained that it...

UPND chairman for elections Gary Nkombo on Saturday evening got into a heated confrontation with the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) over the misallocation of results for Mazabuka Central constituency. Speaking just after the Commission announced consolidated results for 62 constituencies, Nkombo alleged that Hakainde Hichilema’s 374 votes had been allocated to the PAC presidential...

THE Zambia Police has advised members of the public to celebrate the victory of their preferred candidates in a responsible and peaceful manner in order to avoid violence. In a statement, Sunday, Police spokesperson Esther Katongo noted that there was an emerging tendency of violence erupting in some instances as a result of others failing...

PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu says elections have not been free and fair in three provinces, namely Southern, North Western and Western, as they were characterised by violence. He claims that the ruling party’s polling agents were brutalised and chased away from polling stations and were not able to follow the counting of ballots. The Head of...

FORMER Home Affairs deputy minister Colonel Panji Kaunda says it is unfortunate that the PF thought they could win votes by simply giving out K100s to voters. In an interview, Saturday, Kaunda hoped that the new government would give Zambians a new start. "In my view, I think It is not a loss, I think...

RE-ELECTED Kantanshi Member of Parliament Anthony Mumba anticipates a difficult five years ahead for Zambia, arguing that the country is in a recession. And Mumba has advised all stakeholders in the current election to desist from disputing election results that do not seem to favour them. Mumba was yesterday announced as elected MP for Kantanshi...

RE–ELECTED Kalulushi PF member of parliament Kampamba Mulenga has mocked losing candidate Rashida Mulenga after scooping the seat. Mulenga managed to out-poll Mulenga albeit with a slim margin when she collected 18,677 against Rashida’s 17,713. Mulenga and Rashida were once close friends before a fall out ahead of the 2021 nominations for the Kalulushi Parliamentary...

THE African Union Election Observation Mission has recommended that the government should review the 14-day period provided for determining presidential election petitions to allow sufficient adjudication time. And the Mission has bemoaned the polarisation of the media despite the country having a huge number of registered and operating media houses. Speaking during a press briefing,...