ELECTORAL Commission of Zambia Chairperson Mwangala Zaloumis says all political parties are guilty of vote buying and violence during elections. Speaking to journalists on the sidelines of a stakeholders meeting, Tuesday, Zaloumis said she feels sorry for political parties because voters actually expect to be paid. “It’s worrying for us as electoral practitioners, we’ve seen it, we’ve heard about it in all these by-elections. There’ve been complaints from everybody, political parties and NGOs. The problem we have, whether it’s so embedded in our electoral system, we are even wondering that this is becoming the norm, the tradition, I’ll start with electorates. Sometimes, I feel sorry for the political parties because the electorates expect you to buy them, they even tell...

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