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The Patriotic Front (PF) Central Committee has proposed to hold the Extra-Ordinary General Conference on October 29, 2023 and the Constitutional Conference on July 29, 2023.
The Central Committee has also approved a proposed budget of K5.7 million for the two conferences.
Chairperson for Information and Publicity, Raphael Nakachinda, said a Fundraising Committee has been established and members of committee appointed to spearhead raising of funds so that the party can successfully hold the two scheduled conferences.
Nakachinda told Zambia Monitor in Lusaka on Sunday that the Central Committee which was held on Saturday has approved the road map for holding the Constitutional Conference and Extra-ordinary General Conference.
He said the Constitutional Conference will be held under a hybrid arrangement where it will be both an in-person and virtual conference.
“The Central Committee also approved plans and structures of delegates to attend the Extra-ordinary General Conference to elect a new party President,” Nakachinda said.
He said the Central Committee has also approved the Patriotic Front’s Strategic Plan that will be officially launched in Ndola on the Copperbelt by mid-August 2023.
Patriotic Front Vice President, Given Lubinda, who chaired the meeting, called on President Hakainde Hichilema to publish details of the Debt Restructuring Agreement recently announced at the Paris Club Summit in France.
He said this was to allow for informed and productive national debate.
Lubinda said the debt reschedule must help improve the living standards of people or it will be deemed ineffective.
He lamented that government had failed to demonstrate how it had utilised savings from the suspension of debt service where the country has not paid for its debt since December 2020.
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“The repeated attacks and abuse of the law by the State and Law Enforcement Agencies against members of the Opposition must be condemned in the strongest terms,” Lubinda said.
He condemned machinations being perpetrated to question the legitimacy of the election and leadership of Citizen First President, Harry Kalaba and his elected team.
The Central Committee was informed that the Disciplinary Committee had began to handle the disciplinary cases of Mafinga Member of Parliament (MP) Robert Chabinga and Chama South Member of Parliament, Davison Mung’andu and that the affected MPs were responding to the process.
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