Erasmus Shalihaxwe
The Landless People Movement (LPM) second Deputy Operative Secretary, Eneas Envula said that opposition political parties contesting in the upcoming national elections should collaborate and be extra vigilant in observing the election on polling days.
Envula made the call over the weekend, stating that opposition parties should value the role of political agents and try to deploy them at every polling station across the country to maintain vigilance during the election process and voting day, counting of provisional results, verifications and the declaration of such results at voting stations, and even the mobile ones.
‘’This is a clarion call on all opposition parties registered for the upcoming elections on 27th November 2024, to exercise a collaborative and synchronised approach at all 900 Mobile-, and over 4000 fixed polling stations countrywide including foreign missions.
The Landless People’s Movement further calls on the opposition parties to encourage the value of political agents maintaining vigilance during the election process/day, the counting of provisional results, verification and declaration of such results at source,’’ he urged.
According to Envula, the Namibian society has endured unbearable socio-economic and psychological hardship for far too long at the hands of the ruling elite party, and a large fragment of the bruised society expects the opposition to redeem the much trembled up on democracy and negatively affected livelihoods. Thus the oppositions can only deliver that collaboratively and the 27th of November serves as the time to rescue the country from further into dilapidation and the abyss.
‘’It is on the above that the Landless People’s Movement political party operative secretary office invites the Namibian opposition to once more and closely collaborate throughout all polling stations. Such collaboration mirrors our mandate and approach to local and regional government for which we formidably obtained seats in 2020,’’ argued Envula.
According to the Electoral Commission of Namibia, 20 political parties are registered to contest the presidential and national assembly elections later this month, while special elections are set for this week for law enforcement agencies, sea-going personnel and Namibian foreign missions.
Some political analysts have predicted that there might not be an outright majority winner in the first round of voting and there might be a second round of voting where the top two candidates will go head to head to determine the winner as per the constitution because the Namibian constitution does not have provision for multi-part governance.
