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Opposition Tonse Alliance President Brian Mundubile has promised Zambians that his government, once elected this year, will focus on an economy that reflects citizens\u2019 realities and not mere statistics and graphs Speaking during the launch of the Alliance\u2019s manifesto in Lusaka this afternoon, Mr. Mundubile expressed dissatisfaction that while the economy is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":82468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,10],"tags":[233],"class_list":["post-82469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-parties","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>Tonse Alliance Launches Manifesto for Pro-Citizen Economy - 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\/tonse-alliance-launches-manifesto-for-pro-citizen-economy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tonse Alliance Launches Manifesto for Pro-Citizen Economy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. 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