Tsholetsa Domkrag! When we ask for your votes, and you give us your votes to rule, we immediately start ruling; just as we have been doing for the last 50- something years. We do not, after getting your votes, start fighting (read negotiating) on how to rule you.
The UDC has been "negotiating" for the last ten years. But these negotiations have not been on HOW to rule you, should they win the elections; no, not at all. The negotiations on how to rule you will start when you have voted them into Government. In other words when they are supposed to be governing you, they will be starting serious negotiations on how (in heck) to do that - which party takes wich Ministry and which Parastatals. They can't agree on these issues BEFORE elections, because they don't know which of the cooperating parties will win in their allocated constituencies!
So you may want to know what exactly they have been negotiating on during the last ten years. They have been carving up the country like the Imperialists did to Africa from the comfort of their European sofas in or around 1885. Bane ba gopela lefatshe! You the voters were not consulted at all. You were only told at the end of ten years, which cooperating party you must vote for. And now they want you to believe that "carving up Government responsibilities" among themselves can be done in 3 or 4 days after elections? Ao, Bathong do these guys think you are idiots or what?
Yes, they have produced a joint manifesto under the UDC umbrella concept. Even though they call UDC a party, in reality it is just a concept because you can't join it. A joint manifesto is not a contract. Any of the cooperating parties can decide to pull out of the umbrella the day after the elections.
Ask yourselves - if they can produce a joint manifesto and REALLY mean what they have written in that manifesto, what then prevents them from UNITING their parties into ONE party with such manifesto as the guiding document? The answer is simple - The "joint manifesto" is just to fool you, the voters. Vote them in and they will tear the manifesto apart and resort to government ala-Palapye 1998 solution!
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