Pacts and alliances are inevitable in 2021

Dear Editor,

MY view is that in 2011, it’s not PF that won the elections, it was Michael Chilufya Sata. In fact it was Sata who won in all those constituencies except for three or four MPs. It was Michael Sata who was popular.

In 2015, it was Edgar Lungu who won those elections because of two things. The sympathy vote riding on Sata’s death and the heavy support and backing from MMD through Rupiah Banda.

Simply EL won because of MCS and RB, added by his humility and humble background which identified with the majority ordinary Zambians.

In 2016, Edgar Lungu won simply because the Zambian people wanted to try his leadership. To give him a full opportunity and mandate since the last one in 2015 was not his but merely finishing Ssta’s tenure.

In the 2021 elections, PF will be tried as a party not as a person, hence the need to reconsider many things. Like for in instance, 90 percent of the current PF Members of Parliament in Lusaka and Copperbelt provinces if re-adopted won’t retain their seats.

So what strategy does the opposition have to penetrate and takeover all urban votes or what strategy will PF adopt to maintain its grip?

On adoptions of MPs both the ruling and opposition that will re-adopt tired legs, will be punished.

Remember MMD lost control of the urban votes as far back as 2001. Sata began to control all urban votes as of 2006. But MMD stayed on until after 10 years, with rural votes, what was the secret? Good agriculture policies is one of the reasons.

With a 50 percent+1, all political parties need a much higher strategy, not one that concentrates on MPs or the short time politicians, but one that concentrates on the people.

Of course no one will outrightly win that election alone, so pacts and alliances are inevitable in 2021. The real threat to anyone’s chances will be greed and selfishness.

But the party that will strike a genuine pact and alliance with the people’s agenda will carry the day. Time to reach out is now.

‘CONCERNED CITIZEN.’