LOWEST NOMINATIONS FOR MP POSITION

MBABANE – Is there less confidence in people capable of occupying the Member of Parliament (MP) position?

The electorate in all four regions of the Kingdom of Eswatini nominated the least number of candidates for the position of MP (1 645) compared to other categories.

This could be because they might have a few candidates they believe are capable of representing them in Parliament.
Most of the nominees were males (1 225) compared to 420 female nominees. The least number of nominated MPs were from the Lubombo Region, where 65 females and 223 males were put forward. The Hhohho Region had 127 female nominees while the Manzini and Shiselweni Regions had 127 and 92 female nominees, respectively.

One of the new tinkhundla, Nkomiyahlaba, which is in the Manzini Region, registered the highest number of nominees for the MP position, as 45 candidates were nominated.

This figure was made up of 31 male and 14 female candidates. It remains to be seen as to who will be the constituency’s first MP. The constituency is made up of nine royal kraals namely; Eni, Ngcayini, Ntunja, Sigombeni and Vusweni among others.

The other new tinkhundla namely; Gilgal, Sithobela, Kumethula, Siphocosini and Phondo registered 31, 29, 34, 16 and 27 MP nominees respectively. Some tinkhundla nominated as few as 12 candidates in the MP category.

This was Sigwe Inkhundla where Minister of Sports, Culture and Youth David Ngcamphalala is one of the nominees.
Other constituencies which nominated the least candidates for the category were Nkwene (13), Lomahasha (14), Lubulini (15) and Siphocosini (16).
About 89 out of 334 polling divisions did not have female nominees for the MP position. About 35 of them were in the Shiselweni Region, 30 in the Manzini Region while 14 and 10 were in the Lubombo and Hhohho Regions, respectively.

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