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THE ruling UPND has expressed confidence of winning the 2026 general elections as it has continued to win support from Zambians. The party\u2019s deputy Secretary General, Ms Gertrude Imenda, said the UPND will not have difficulties to defeat the opposition because of the massive support it has continued to receive on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":60289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,25,10],"tags":[234,235,233],"class_list":["post-60290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-featured","category-parties","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>UPND confident of winning 2026 polls - Zambia<\/title>\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\/upnd-confident-of-winning-2026-polls\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UPND confident of winning 2026 polls\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. 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