PUDEMO WANTS TO JOIN 2018 ELECTIONS

MBABANE – SWAYOCO and PUDEMO are allegedly lobbying their counterparts to agree to contest in the upcoming 2018 elections.

In a roundabout turn, the country’s political parties with the most members which had always denounced participation in elections, seem to have had a change of heart.
Information received has revealed that the People’s United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO) and the Swaziland Youth Congress (SWAYOCO) have been instructed by their donors to look into changing their strategy for bringing democracy into the country.

“Informal discussions have begun in small groups and it was revealed that most of the members who are interested in joining the elections are waiting for the coming congress to be held soon where they will lobby the move to change tactics.”
After years of denouncing the country’s elections and branding them ‘not free or fair’, the proscribed entities are considering taking part in the 2018 national elections where Members of Parliament representing the 55 constituencies in the country are chosen by the people.

Certain members of political entities are looking into achieving a multiparty Swaziland through a strategy of participation, as opposed to non-participation as they have been doing in the past years.
This decision according to sources has been reached by certain members of the organisations as they determine whether their stance not to participate in certain national activities has yielded any meaningful results in terms of their struggle to bring a multi party system in the country.

 According to Maxwell Dlamini, the current SWAYOCO Secretary General, a number of political activists were looking into the possibility of partaking in the upcoming elections as a new strategy.
 “This has been spoken in informal settings and has been discussed. Others feel we may be forced to change our modus operandi to make an impact within the political arena of the country.”
 Dlamini said currently, he could not state whether this move would be adopted by all political party members.

 “Look, I will not pre-empt things but there is talk of a change of strategy within our parties in order for us to make an impact; participating in the elections is one of them.”

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