Lubinda sounds alarm ahead of PF General Conference

Patriotic Front aspiring presidential candidate and Kabwata Member of Parliament Given Lubinda has warned that failure to come up with proper and agreed grounds rules for tomorrow’s general conference will render the conference a sham and a subject of dispute.

Mr Lubinda in a letter to acting President Guy Scott obtained by QFM News says due to lack of ground rules, some people are being quarantined in lodges,hotels,private homes, other places, while reports of money exchanging hands to try to woo support for the elections at the general conference are also numerous.

Mr Lubinda says this is as a result of lack of leadership of the process and a clear sign of confusion in the management of the electoral process.

He states that as the ruling party, the PF need to demonstrate that they carry more responsibility for this task than any other political party in Zambia, and that failure to uphold simple rules required to enable a level playing field, he doubts the PF should be allowed to even govern.

Mr Lubinda has since appealed to Dr Scott and the party’s electoral commission to spell out clear ground rules,guidelines, which all delegates and candidates and their supporters must adhere to.

He states that these rules and guidelines must provide a level playing field that permits for holding free, fair, transparent and constitutional elections.

Mr Lubinda has also proposed that the election of the party’s president should be through a three staged process.

He explains that this three-staged process will ensure that the President is not elected based on the number of delegates that one has managed to buy.

The Kabwata parliamentarian states that his three-stage proposal will guarantee that in the first round four candidates will drop out, leaving six who will proceed to the second round and that those who drop out in the first round together with their supporters would then endorse any of the remaining candidates.

He adds that in the second round, the bottom four candidates would be dropped, leaving two candidates to proceed to the final round, through which the presidential candidate would be elected.

Mr Lubinda says the result is that the party will come up with a popular candidate who will not take much time to sell to the rest of the country and one who will enjoy the support of the majority,if not all of the party delegates.

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