The Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) is likely to govern through a coalition agreement, according to a recent report by Geopolitical Intelligence Services (GIS).
GIS which provides analysis and insights on global political, economic, and security developments and in February this year accurately predicted the formation of South Africa’s current coalition government, notes that the BDP faces challenges that are comparable to what the ANC was up against in South Africa in the period leading to elections this spring.
“The ANC’s electoral decline was, on the one hand, a result of tireless campaigns by the opposition pointing to poor governance by the ruling party. Its decline was also engineered from within when former president Jacob Zuma (2009-2018) created a splinter party (the MK Party), denting the ANC’s support base,” said Ralf Mathekga who is an analyst at GIS. He added that “That, in the end, forced the ruling party’s remainder to form a coalition to maintain power in the country.”
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