Zambian Opposition Accuses Ruling Party of Rigging Polls

Zambia’s opposition leader Michael Sata of the Patriotic Front has accused acting president Rupiah Banda of rigging polls in an effort to secure the country’s presidential election.

According to Sata, the governing party has used intimidation to control the elections that were set in motion following the death of President Levy Mwanawasa. Despite Sata’s complaints officials have declared Thursday’s vote was peaceful and orderly and there had been no evidence of rigging.

Sata had declared Banda’s Movement for Multi-Party Democracy could only win by rigging the polls and encouraged his supporters to sleep outside ballot posts to ensure such an event didn’t take place.

Police had been stationed at polls as a means of ensuring peace was held but Sata has called the action a form of intimidation.

That wasn’t the way election observers from the African Union saw it though as they have said there had been no signs of rigging.

Banda served as vice president under Mwanawasa and took the presidential office following the President’s death in August.

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