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Africa-Press – Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>Allexer Namundjembo and Stefanus Nashama<\/b><\/p>\n

Political parties have rejected proposals to rally behind one presidential candidate who will unseat Swapo.<\/p>\n

The proposal comes as the preliminary results from the Special Voting Day show that if put together, the opposition parties\u2019 votes are more than that of Swapo presidential candidate Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah.<\/p>\n

The suggestion to join forces was made by the United People\u2019s Movement secretary general, Celeste Becker.<\/p>\n

\u201cAdd all opposition votes, and we will have the lead. This is not all about the opposition presidential candidates, but it is all about the people. We can still be one. Agree already which presidential candidate will support the opposition on the 27th, and all those opposition candidates will be appointed to cabinet,\u201d Becker suggested.<\/p>\n

Various political parties reject the proposal.<\/p>\n

The president of the Congress of Democracy (CoD), Vaino Amuthenu, said political parties should not unite solely to unseat Swapo.<\/p>\n

According to him, they must also align on policies and ideologies.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must look at the parties that are of the same ideologies and with the same policies. We don\u2019t want to end up forming up a coalition with parties that do support gays, and same-sex marriage for the sake of unseating Swapo,\u201d Amuthenu said.<\/p>\n

He said that if one party promotes ideas that contradict those of another party, the coalition government will struggle to function.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will end up having chaos and a country that is on autopilot as parties are aiming differently. Aiming to unseat the Swapo party, or just because you don\u2019t want to be ruled by a lady, doesn\u2019t mean you are capable of leading,\u201d said Amuthenu.<\/p>\n

Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) secretary general Manuel Ngaringombe also did not welcome the proposal.<\/p>\n

Ngaringombe said the call came at a bad time because people were already participating in elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a time when we wanted to work with parties, but parties didn\u2019t want to work with us, so we have our candidate for the presidency,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Ngaringombe also said PDM is not moved by the special election results.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose who voted are those getting commands from their superiors,\u201d he mentioned.<\/p>\n

National Empowerment Fighting Corruption (NEFC) president Kenneth Iilonga also rejected the proposal.<\/p>\n

He said there is a lack of consensus within his party regarding endorsements, allowing members the freedom to support their preferred candidates.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe tried to discuss the endorsements, but we couldn\u2019t agree on whom to choose. We approached the IPC leader, but he was not willing to listen to us,\u201d said Iilonga.<\/p>\n

Landless People\u2019s Movement National (LPM) spokesperson Lifalaza Simataa said the party does not believe in the last-minute expression of panic.<\/p>\n

\u201cA party endorsing one party for both the presidency and the national assembly again pushes that only one party will have power in both branches of government, which leads to the same conditions that had Swapo mismanaging the country and not being able to be held accountable by the legislative because it is the legislative,\u201d Simataa said.<\/p>\n

He added that the suggestion came late, making it not fit for parties to govern.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe job is not only to unseat Swapo but also to give Namibians a dignified life,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n

He said the party\u2019s ideologies differ, noting that LPM is the only party advocating for a federal state.<\/p>\n

\u201cLPM is the only party to express that people will get money directly into their hands from an oil fund that will be established using a portion of the oil money gained by the Namibian oil as a direct method of fighting poverty,\u2019\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n

Unlike others, the authorised representative for the Action Democratic Movement (ADM), Matheus Paulus, backed the proposal.<\/p>\n

However, he said he would engage the party leadership on the proposal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am hearing this from you. We did not discuss it. We will discuss it and get back to you. Swapo cannot be defeated by one party,\u201d said Paulus.<\/p>\n

The Body of Christ Party\u2019s president, Festus Thomas, also supports the proposal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am in support of the proposal because we see what is happening in this country. That is the only way we can remove the current government,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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