National Democratic Focus

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National Democratic Focus ( German  National Democratic Focus ) is a political party in Zambia .

National Democratic Focus must be kept apart by the National Democratic Forum . The latter is an electoral alliance that later changed its name to the United Democratic Alliance in order to be more distinguishable. The National Democratic Front electoral alliance, on the other hand, is a predecessor organization of the NDF.

history

The NDF emerged from the merger of the Reform Party under the former Vice President Nevers Mumba , the Party for Unity , the Democracy and Development and the Zambia Democratic Congress . This merger took place at the founding meeting on June 17 and 18, 2006 with a view to the upcoming elections.

As a presidential candidate for the NDF was the former defense minister, Benjamin Mwila , nominated, actually the Zambia Republican Party belongs and thus the electoral alliance Zambia Alliance for Progress , the Dean Mung'omba in the election in Zambia in 2006 went. But that was typical of this election, in which political leaders tried to pull the strongest electoral alliances behind them in order to win the election. It was clear from them that the future party system would develop in them.

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