IF we are to put things simply, we could say, the statements on delimitation are confusing. In one breath, Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) Chief Electoral Officer Brown Kasaro says the delimitation report does not specify which areas will be split if the Constitution is amended to create 55 new constituencies. Yet, in another breath, he insists that the same report is what informed the proposal in Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 7 to create those 55 constituencies. These two statements cannot both be true. How can a report that allegedly contains no constituency-by-constituency recommendations simultaneously serve as the foundation for expanding Zambia’s parliamentary map? If people are to believe Mr Kasaro’s claim that the ECZ’s delimitation report did not outline...

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