CHIEF Government Spokesperson Cornelius Mweetwa has bragged that the ruling party has won 47 out of the 50 local government by-elections which have been held since it came into office in 2021. And Mweetwa says only the Socialist Party seems to be serious when it comes to by-elections among opposition political parties. Last week, the Edgar Lungu-led PF faction’s chairperson for information and publicity Emmanuel Mwamba asked President Hakainde Hichilema to call for early elections, arguing that UPND would crash the country. Commenting on this in an interview, Monday, Mweetwa said those who were asking the President to call for early elections were time wasters. “Those are just time wasters. We know that Zambia is a constitutional government that lives...