ZAMBIAN ELECTION: Former First Lady Mwanawasa Reported Out
12 August 2016
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Unconfirmed social media reports she has lost…Mwanawasa

Staff Reporter|There are unconfirmed reports that Zambia’s former First Lady Maureen Mwanawasa has lost in her bid to be the next Executive Mayor of  Lusaka. Substantive results are said to be out tomorrow with several announcements being pushed back because of counting glitches and irregularities which include missing ballot boxes among others.
While not confirming or denying her loss Mwanawasa wrote on social media this evening, “I hope the election observers have not left the country to see for themselves the deliberate delay in releasing results.”
Social media is awash with reports of Mwanawasa’s loss and some even being posted by her supporters.
Mwanawasa had indicated upon her return to politics that her backing United Party for National Development President Hakainde Hichilema should not be taken lightly.
“I have stayed away from politics for six years and my coming back means business. I want to be one of the chief campaigners for UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema who I believe is the man to lead this country up to 2016 and beyond,” she told the media back in 2014.

The election in Zambia is a tight two-horse race between the ruling Patriotic Front and the opposition UPND. President Edgar Lungu and his main challenger Hakainde Hichilema are both anxious to avoid a run-off.

Several top members of PF have defected to UPND. They include former Vice President Guy Scott, former First Lady Maureen Mwanawasa and Mulenga Sata, the son of late President Michael Sata. Scott and Sata senior were the founding members of the Patriotic Front, but Scott fell out with Lungu after Sata senior’s death.