By NATION REPORTER
THE Patriotic Front (PF) and the Socialist Party have rubbished speculations that the two opposition political parties are in talks for a possible alliance and have described the reports as nothing but a manifestation of political phobia and paranoia by the UPND.
PF chairman for information and publicity Raphael Nakacinda and Socialist Party leader Fred M’membe have said there had never been talks between the two parties for an alliance and that the claims were only a figment of the UPND imaginations.
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Mr Nakacinda when contacted said the PF was not aware that it was a weak political organisation needing an alliance with other opposition political parties to defeat the UPND. Mr Nakacinda said it was instead the UPND that had become weak as it had been traumatised by its failure to deliver to the expectations of Zambians after assuming the governance of the country with the flamboyance of the 2.8 million votes.
He said the UPND had lost its popularity to a scale that by 2026, the governing party shall be the easiest to defeat because Zambians were angry that they were duped into voting for a political party that was going to condemn them into deeper levels of poverty and miseries.
Mr Nakacinda said the UPND had been suffering from all forms of paranoia including the phobia of the imagined return to active politics of former President Edgar Lungu.
“The Patriotic Front is not aware that it is in talks with the Socialist Party for an alliance. We know that the UPND has been generating all sorts of rumours and lies about the PF and this is because of their fear that the former ruling party is a threat to their stay in power. They UPND is now gripped with fear and paranoia coupled with the phobia of the imagined return of former President Lungu into active politics. And Dr M’membe said the Socialist Party had not entered into any arrangements or discussions with the PF for purposes of forming an alliance.
Dr M’membe said the UPND was being delusional because according to him, the governing party was but a group of frightened little men scared of their own shadows because of the many lies they had told Zambians.
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