OPPOSITION Political parties have written to President Hakainde Hichilema, lamenting over the shrinking democratic space and high poverty levels. And the Opposition says there is a breakdown in health facilities under UPND, lamenting that the Cancer Diseases Hospital is virtually non operational when it was once a flagship centre. Meanwhile, the Opposition says there’s a lack of democracy at parliament. Reading the letter to journalists on behalf of her colleagues yesterday, New Heritage Party president Chishala Kateka said the opposition also noted the lack of progress on a number of pronouncements made. “Your Excellency, as members of the opposition, we are deeply concerned with the current state of our nation. We have noted that there is a shrinking democratic space,...

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