VETERAN politician Vernon Mwaanga has urged political parties to ensure they hold civil, clean and issue based campaigns ahead of the August general elections. And Mwaanga says candidates who will not abide by the laws must be held accountable, regardless of the political party they belong to. In a statement, Wednesday, Mwaanga said Zambian elections had by and large nearly always been pronounced as free and fair. “Our country has had an admirable record of holding general elections since independence in 1964. Even before independence, there were elections in 1962 for the legislative council, which produced a coalition government between the United National Independence Party (UNIP) and the African National Congress (ANC). This was followed by elections of January, 1964,...