PF Pamodzi president Makebi Zulu says the recently held Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) stakeholders meeting was not consultative. Zulu further says the Commission told stakeholders that it was proposing to increase nomination fees for the August polls due to inflation. Last Friday, the Commission met with over 50 political parties for a stakeholders’ consultative meeting, where it proposed that the nomination fees for male presidential candidates be set at K100,000. In an interview, Sunday, Zulu accused the Commission of going to the meeting only to communicate its agenda. “I think ECZ came to that meeting, not to have a consultative meeting as purported it was going to be, but they had everything already cast in concrete for purposes of...




