Marriage of convenience

Dec 21, 2009

EDITOR—I read with great interest The New Vision story of December 16 in which it was reported that four opposition political parties had agreed to field a joint candidate in the 2011 presidential elections.

EDITOR—I read with great interest The New Vision story of December 16 in which it was reported that four opposition political parties had agreed to field a joint candidate in the 2011 presidential elections.

This was followed by a revelation that the candidate was to be announced in April 2010.

The relevant question is not who is likely to be the joint candidate but rather who is not. It is clear from this composition that one party is attempting to co-opt others with the aim of bettering its fragile national political margin.

This is, politically speaking, perfectly okay especially when the co-opted seem naive or at least feign naivety. Marriages of convenience have had their fair share of catastrophic consequences with some suffering still-births.

I hope my political prophecy turns out to be false.

Henry Kuloba Wesaka
kulobahenry@yahoo.co.uk

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