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Valaffischer på Edgar Lungu plockas ned (Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi / TT NYHETSBYRÅN)

Zambias president kallar motståndarens ledning fusk

Sittande president Edgar Lungu hävdar att valet i Zambia inte varit fritt och rättvist, rapporterar flera medier. Utspelet kom efter att den inledande rösträkningen visar på att hans motståndare Hakainde Hichilema leder stort.

Enligt Lungu har valarbetare från hans parti Patriotiska fronten jagats bort vilket inneburit att valsedlar lämnats obevakade.

Oppositionsledaren kallar anklagelserna ”en desperat slutakt från en avgående administration”.

Zambias valkommission har ännu inte kommenterat anklagelserna.

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Hakainde Hichilema
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Hakainde Hichilema (born 4 June 1962) is a Zambian businessman and politician who has been President of the United Party for National Development, an opposition political party, since 2006. He is a perennial presidential candidate, having contested five times and lost all: in 2006, 2008, 2011, 2015 and 2016.
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Edgar Lungu
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Edgar Chagwa Lungu (born 11 November 1956) is a Zambian politician who has been serving as the sixth president of Zambia since 25 January 2015. Under President Michael Sata, Lungu served as Minister of Justice and Minister of Defence. Following Sata's death in October 2014, Lungu was adopted as the candidate of the ruling Patriotic Front in a Convention of the Patriotic Front in Kabwe, for the January 2015 presidential by-election, which was to determine who would serve out the remainder of Sata's term. In the election, he narrowly defeated opposition candidate Hakainde Hichilema and took office on 25 January 2015. Lungu was elected to a full presidential term in the August 2016 election, again narrowly defeating Hichilema. Hichilema initially disputed the election result and filed a case at the Constitutional Court to nullify the result. On 5 September, however, the court dismissed the case. Lungu was sworn in for his first full term on 13 September 2016.

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