Politics
Zambia: Opposition candidate leading in presidential polls
Friday, September 16, 2011
Latest polls place Zambian opposition Patriotic Front (PF) president Michael Sata as a probable winner of the presidency with 54% of the vote after the next general elections to be held next Tuesday (20 September 2011).
It is projected that Sata’s Patriotic Front will secure an absolute majority of 87 in Zambia’s 158-member parliament (150 MPs are directly elected from single-seat constituencies, eight are appointed).
It is also projected that incumbent President Rupiah Banda‘s Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD) will lose more than half its parliamentary seats to secure just 34.
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