SWADEPA DEMANDS NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR ITS CANDIDATES

Story by Phumlani Dlamini

Swaziland Democratic Party has filed an application in the High Court requesting to be unhindered in campaigning in all part of the country on behalf of its members who choose to join the race to parliaments.

Speaking with the Times of Swaziland, SWADEPA President who is also Manzini North Member of Parliament (MP), Jan Sithole, voiced out that there is nothing preventing political parties from campaigning for particular candidates between the primary and secondary elections. Sithole also declared in the party’s founding affidavit that he intends to stand for re-election in the elections to be held later this year.

Sithole who informed the court that he has registered to vote expressed that should he prosper in being elected, he intend to advance SWADEPA’s political agenda as an integral part of his work as an MP.

In its application in court, SWADEPA wants the court to interdict the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) and government from preventing it, and any other political party which chooses to sponsor and support candidates for election who run for parliament, from publicly identifying and expressing their support to members.