Sello Motseta
25th October 2019
Botswana’s ruling party has won a resounding 38 of the 57 seats in the National Assembly in a first past the post electoral system ensuring them another 5 years at the helm buoyed by President Mokgweetsi Masisi’s commitment to fighting corruption and sympathisers irked by former President’s Ian Khama’s attempts to undermine his hand-picked successors leadership.
The combative former Foreign Minister Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi learned how difficult it is to remove a sitting President when she pulled out of contest to challenge Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi Friday at the ruling party’s Presidential Congress in Kang, a small rural town set in the Kalahari about 400km south of the country’s capital city Gaborone.
Former Members of Parliament (MP) from the ruling party’s Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) have thrown their collective weight behind incumbent President Mokgweetsi Masisi ahead of the special congress in Kang, where Masisi is being challenged by Former Foreign Minister and Khama lackey Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi, for the Presidency ahead of national polls scheduled for October 2019.
