Guy Scott

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Guy Scott (2014)

Guy Lindsay Scott (born June 1, 1944 in Livingstone , Northern Rhodesia ) was Zambian Vice President from 2011 to 2014 and, after the death of President Michael Sata, until the elections on January 20, 2015, interim President of Zambia.

Political career

In 1990 Scott joined the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD). In 1991 he was elected to the National Assembly and appointed Minister of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries. In 1996 he founded the short-lived Lima Party . In 2001 he joined the Patriotic Front (PF). In the 2006 election in Zambia , he won the direct mandate in the Lusaka Central constituency .

In 2011, President Michael Sata (also PF) appointed him Vice President. Scott was Vice President of Zambia until 2014 and was appointed interim successor by the Cabinet the following day after Sata's death on October 28, 2014, even though President Sata appointed his Defense Minister Edgar Lungu as acting President before his death for medical treatment on October 19, 2014 would have. Scott was the first white president of an African state since Frederik Willem de Klerk , the last president of the South African apartheid regime . This fact that a white man conducts the highest state affairs was given significantly more attention in the so-called “Western world” than in his native Zambia. When he was introduced as Zambian Vice President at a meeting with George W. Bush , the former President of the United States thought it was a joke.

Since the Zambian constitution requires that both parents of a presidential candidate are Zambian by birth or parentage, Scott was unable to run for the presidential election. His party, the PF, banned him from all party offices during his interim presidency and during the beginning of the election campaign at the end of November 2014.

In the presidential election on January 20, 2015, Edgar Lungu was elected to succeed Scott as president.

Private life

Scott was born on June 1, 1944 in Livingstone, Northern Rhodes. His father, Alec Scott, immigrated to the British colony of Northern Rhodesia in 1927 , his mother Grace moved to 1940. His father was of Scottish descent and his mother was from Watford , England. Scott first went to school in what was then Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe ) and continued his academic training in the United Kingdom . He studied economics at Cambridge University , graduating in 1965, and returned to Zambia to work as a planner in the Treasury. In 1970, he founded Walkover Estates, a cash crops (wheat, strawberry, and vegetable) farm . He returned to the UK in the early 1980s. At Oxford University , he worked as a lecturer and researcher in the field of robotics . In 1986 he earned a PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of Sussex, UK . The theme of his work is Local and global interpretation of moving images (for example: “Local and global interpretation of moving images”).

Scott is married to the economist and social politician Charlotte Harland Scott and has four children.

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ "Zambian President Michael Sata goes for medical check-up," BBC News, October 20, 2014.
  3. Party rivalries grow as Sata ails. , Africa Confidential , volume 55, number 21, 24 October 2014.
  4. A white man rules Zambia. Frankfurter Rundschau , October 29, 2014, accessed on January 25, 2015 .
  5. a b c d Aislinn Laing: I am Africa's first white democratic leader, says Zambian vice-president . In: The Daily Telegraph , October 29, 2014. 
  6. ^ Cabinet appoints Guy Scott as Acting President - reaction from Gen Miyanda . In: Lusaka Times , October 29, 2014. 
  7. Article 34, Paragraph 2 literally names the criterion: “both his parents are Zambians by birth or descent”, wording from constitutions.unwomen.org (English), accessed on April 13, 2018
  8. Bartholomäus Grill: Guy Scott President in Zambia: First white head of state in Africa for 20 years . Spiegel Online, October 29, 2014
  9. ^ Edgar Lungu Fires Guy Scott, PF Vice President. lusakatimes.com dated December 16, 2014, accessed February 4, 2015
  10. The ruling party candidate wins the presidential election. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 24, 2015, accessed on January 25, 2015 .
  11. Challenger admits defeat in presidential elections in Zambia. Deutsche Welle , January 24, 2015, accessed January 25, 2015 .
  12. a b c Portrait on the Patriotic Front website ( memento from January 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (English), accessed on October 30, 2014
  13. Entry on the website of the University of Sussex ( memento of the original from October 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed October 30, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sussex.ac.uk