‘PF not dead’ Bangweulu lawmaker slams ruling UPND for acting like an opposition party

Bangweulu member of Parliament, Anthony Kasandwe, says the ruling United Party for National Development (UPND) should stop behaving like an opposition party.

The Bangweulu law maker also maintains that chances of the Patriotic Front (PF) bouncing back are very high.

Kasandwe said on KBN’s Big Hour programme on Tuesday that the capitalist tendencies by the party in power will not yield any benefits.

“The UPND has been saying the PF is the dead party but still continue talking about the PF which is dead, they should own up and stop behaving like an opposition party because this blame game won’t work,” he said.

Kasandwe said the PF which is a socially oriented party had a robust development programme to turn around the country’s economy.

He warned the UPND not to under-rate the PF chances of forming government in 2026, arguing they were very high looking at the way ‘things have been mismanaged’ .

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Kasandwe said political parties do expand and shrink.

“More than 1.8 million voted for the PF and the numbers are intact while attracting new members, so it is wrong to think that the PF cannot bounce back,” he said.

Kasandwe stated that the happenings in PF were a normal process for the party that lost power, adding that he was sure there would stabilse .

On constituency matters, he said the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) which was meant to achieve the much needed decentralisation will not achieve its intended purpose as the central government continues dedicating terms.

“There is no decentralisation in terms of CDF utilisation because the Minister of Local Government Rural Development is imposing terms ,from our computation, from K28 million, we only have a say on K6 million community empowerment, ” Kasandwe said.

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