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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zambia<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>THE Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ)has reminded all independent candidates for the forthcoming general election that they should not be affiliated to any political party.<\/p>\n

ECZ corporate affairs manager Patricia Luhanga said this is in line with the legal requirements, should stipulates that all independent candidates should relinquished political party membership \u201cat least two months immediately before the date of the election.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo this end, independent candidates should desist from using campaign materials for political parties or in any way identify themselves with any political party,\u201d she said Ms Luhanga said the commission will not hesitate to take appropriate action including disqualification of erring candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zambia. THE Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ)has reminded all independent candidates for the forthcoming general election that they should not be affiliated to any political party. ECZ corporate affairs manager Patricia Luhanga said this is in line with the legal requirements, should stipulates that all independent candidates should relinquished political party membership \u201cat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":2876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,9,16],"tags":[234,235,1006,712,233],"class_list":["post-2877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-miscellaneous","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-electoral-commission-of-zambia","tag-patricia-luhanga","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"\nECZ warns independent candidates affiliated to political parties - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"THE Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ)has reminded all independent candidates for the forthcoming general election tha ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/ecz-warns-independent-candidates-affiliated-to-political-parties\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ECZ warns independent candidates affiliated to political parties\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"THE Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ)has reminded all independent candidates for the forthcoming general election tha ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/ecz-warns-independent-candidates-affiliated-to-political-parties\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Zambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-07-20T12:07:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2021\/07\/img-60f6bb500e706.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/ecz-warns-independent-candidates-affiliated-to-political-parties#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/ecz-warns-independent-candidates-affiliated-to-political-parties\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"ECZ warns independent candidates affiliated to political parties\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-07-20T12:07:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/ecz-warns-independent-candidates-affiliated-to-political-parties\"},\"wordCount\":117,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/ecz-warns-independent-candidates-affiliated-to-political-parties#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2021\/07\/img-60f6bb500e706.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zambia\",\"Electoral Commission of Zambia\",\"Patricia Luhanga\",\"Zambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"miscellaneous\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/ecz-warns-independent-candidates-affiliated-to-political-parties#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/ecz-warns-independent-candidates-affiliated-to-political-parties\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/ecz-warns-independent-candidates-affiliated-to-political-parties\",\"name\":\"ECZ warns independent candidates affiliated to political parties - 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