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Namibia: Namibia’s game-changing 2024 elections: Swapo may face defeat – Opinion

Namibia: Namibia’s game-changing 2024 elections: Swapo may face defeat – Opinion

Africa Links 24 with Henning Melber
Published on 2024-11-10 06:00:00

Former liberation movement Swapo has been in firm political control of Namibia since independence in 1990.

Support for the party in the National Assembly and presidential elections reached a high point in November 2014.

The 2019 elections marked a turning point, however: Swapo lost its two-thirds majority in parliament. President Hage Geingob was re-elected with the worst result yet – 56% of votes cast, compared to 87% in 2014. This reflected disappointment over the unfulfilled…

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