Shana Warren

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In this year’s election, the BDP is far from certain of victory. What has changed? Here are five things to know:

1. There’s declining support for the BDP

Although the BDP has held a legislative supermajority since 1965, its support has waned. The party has won only a bare majority of votes since 1994, and claimed less than half the vote in the last election, in 2014.

The BDP continues to dominate the legislature — holding 70 percent of the seats in Parliament — aided by first-past-the-post electoral rules and the president’s constitutional authority to appoint six parliamentary seats.

2. The current president has never led his party to national elections

Botswana’s president, Mokgweetsi Masisi, has only held office since April 2018.…  Seguir leyendo »