PF FACTION vice-president Given Lubinda says people should not be swayed by nay sayers who have been arguing that the former ruling party should not cry about the shrinking democratic space because they also restricted people’s freedoms when they were in power. Speaking to journalists at the Lusaka Magistrates Court, Tuesday, Lubinda said had it been true that the PF did not provide a sufficient democratic space, the country would have been a one-party state by now. “I would like to seize this opportunity to say [that] don’t you be swayed by some nay sayers who are saying that members of the Patriotic Front must not cry about democratic space because they themselves when in government did not give people...

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