Secretary General of the ruling Swapo Party, Sophia Shaningwa said the party wants to reclaim its two-thirds majority that it lost during the 2019 general elections.
Shaningwa made the remarks at a mini rally Swapo held at Tuhingireni informal settlement on Wednesday.
Swapo had held a two-thirds majority since the 1994 elections but lost that in 2019.
That year the ruling party received 63 seats, leaving 33 seats to be shared among the opposition political parties.
Swapo lost 14 seats from the 77 seats it obtained during the 2014 elections.
‘In terms of support to the Swapo Party during the elections, the Kavango regions always come second after the four O-regions to make sure we win,’ Shaningwa said.
According to Shaningwa, even Founding President Sam Nujoma who served three terms as the first president of the country knew that the Kavango regions never failed in leading the party to victory.
‘The Kavango regions are the biggest supporters of our party, Swapo,’ she said.
The purpose of her visit, she
said is to prepare party members and eligible voters to register themselves on 03 June 2024 for the Presidential and National Elections on 27 November 2024 to vote for the Swapo Party as well as the party’s presidential candidate Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah.
She called on party leaders in the region to mobilise their people from constituency to constituency and district to district for the sake of the party and its candidate.
Meanwhile, Shaningwa called on the revival of all green schemes in the Kavango East and West regions in order for them to feed the people of the regions.
‘A nation should be able to feed itself. We cannot go and buy food from countries like India and China,’ she stated.
Locals must also be employed to work in the green schemes for the people to feed themselves, she added.
‘Nandi-Ndaitwah as Vice President of the country visited the green schemes last month after which a collective decision was taken to revive the green schemes by pumping more money into them,’ Shaningwa said.
Source: T
he Namibia Press Agency