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The Constitutional Court has dismissed the presidential petition filed by UPND President Hakainde Hichilema and his Running Mate Geoffrey Mwamba challenging the declaration of president-elect Edgar Lungu as the winner of the August 11 presidential election. Three of the five judges held the position that the petition stood dismissed at midnight on Friday. Delivering the majority position of the court ...

United Democratic Forum (UDF) President Miles Sampa says he respects and supports the re-election of President Edgar Lungu. The UDF Leader is among the political party leaders that entered into an alliance with the opposition UPND before the August 11th General Elections. In a statement to QFM News today, Mr. Sampa says this is now the time for healing the ...

President Elect Edgar Lungu says the plans to create a ministry to deal with religious affairs means well contrary to assertions that he is abusing the church. President Lungu is concerned that the pronouncement to create a ministry for religious affairs did not go well with some people who are of the view that he wants to hijack the church. ...

Political Scientist Dr. Alex Ng’oma has encouraged the next Republican President to keep an open door policy to State House for stakeholders to easily volunteer their ideas on governance matters. Dr. Ng’oma says it is also important that the opposition in this regard do not keep their ideas but rather submit them to the President in order to take the ...

President Elect Edgar Lungu says he is consulting his lawyers following the adjournment of the presidential petition by the constitutional court to Monday 5th September, 2016. And Government is on Monday 5th September, 2016 expected to give direction on its position following the decision by the constitutional court to adjourn the presidential petition to Monday. The Constitutional Court yesterday adjourned ...

The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) has charged that the constitutional court is setting a dangerous precedent on the law regarding electoral petitions. The organization argues that the decision by the Constitutional Court to extend the time limit allowed by the Constitution for trying a presidential petition has set a most dangerous precedent with regards to both the rule of ...

The Constitutional Court has adjourned to Monday next week the hearing of the presidential election petition which was earlier set to be heard and concluded on Friday yesterday. The Court has also ordered that two days each be given to both the petitioners and respondents to argue their case. This was after the Constitution Court failed to hear the petition ...

The Constitutional Court is continuing to hear the presidential petition filed by UPND president Hakainde Hichilema in which he is challenging the declaration of president-elect Edgar Lungu as winner of last month’s presidential election. And the Court this afternoon threw out four applications by the UPND in which the party was, among other things, contending that concluding trial in the ...

The Constitutional Court has begun hearing the presidential petition filed by UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema challenging the re-election of President Edgar Lungu in the August 11 polls. The full bench of the court consisting five Judges is being lead by Constitutional Court president Hildah Chibombo. The court will hear the petition and deliver judgment before the 14 days stipulated in ...

The Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) says FDD President Edith Nawakwi is entitled to her opinion which it respects. Reacting to Ms Nawakwi’s call for ECZ to be disbanded, ECZ Public Relations Manager Crispin Akufuna says people should not forget that August elections were not the first elections the commission conducted. He says the Commission the remains the same electoral ...