{"id":17953,"date":"2022-03-10T20:53:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T20:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/pf-complains-to-ecz-as-upnd-launches-premature-campaigns-in-kabushi"},"modified":"2022-03-10T21:07:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T21:07:06","slug":"pf-complains-to-ecz-as-upnd-launches-premature-campaigns-in-kabushi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/pf-complains-to-ecz-as-upnd-launches-premature-campaigns-in-kabushi","title":{"rendered":"PF complains to ECZ as UPND launches premature campaigns in Kabushi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>The opposition PF has accused the ruling UPND of launching premature campaigns in Kabushi Constituency. The Kabushi Constituency victory of PF\u2019s Bowman Lusambo was nullified by the High Court but the matter has been referred to the Constitutional Court on appeal.<\/p>\n<p>The Concourt has since set May 9th as date for ruling in the matter. PF Ndola District Chairman Benjamin Chitondo has since written to the Electoral Commission of Zambia complaining over the conduct of the UPND in Kabushi.<\/p>\n<p>He said the conduct of the UPND is tantamount to undermining the judiciary. Mr. Chitondo has alleged that while the nullification of the Kabushi seat was petitioned in the Constitutional Court and not yet to be determined, the UPND has started doing door to door premature campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the PF District Executive wants clarity from the ECZ on the way forward regarding the affairs of the constituency while the matter is still active in court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are now busy campaigning in Kabushi whilst the matter is still active in the Concourt, now who has told them that the seat will be nullified? This is unfair and contravenes the Electoral Code of Conduct and this is also Contempt of Court,\u201d complains Mr. Chitondo.<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201c we want ECZ to guide, failure to do so, we will have no choice but to also start campaigning because we don\u2019t want to be disadvantaged.\u201d Mr. Chitondo said that ECZ should come in and make things clear before the party is disadvantaged in selling their manifesto to the people of Kabushi constituency.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\">Zambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. The opposition PF has accused the ruling UPND of launching premature campaigns in Kabushi Constituency. The Kabushi Constituency victory of PF\u2019s Bowman Lusambo was nullified by the High Court but the matter has been referred to the Constitutional Court on appeal. The Concourt has since set May 9th as date for ruling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":17952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,25,8,10,16],"tags":[234,235,233],"class_list":["post-17953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-featured","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PF complains to ECZ as UPND launches premature campaigns in Kabushi - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The opposition PF has accused the ruling UPND of launching premature campaigns in Kabushi Constituency. 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