Elected at the vice-president of the Swapo, Netumbo Nandi-Nandaitwah becomes the favorite to carry out the campaign of the presidential and national elections of 2024.
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The ruling party in Namibia elected the Deputy Prime Minister Netumbo Nandi-Nandaitwah as Vice-President, making her the favorite to lead the Party in the presidential and national elections of 2024.
Nandi-Nndaitwah has ahead of Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila and the Minister of the Environment Pohamba Shifeta in the race at the number 2 post of the organization of the people of the South West African (Swapo). President Hage Geingob, who must withdraw at the end of his mandate, refused to approve a successor as his predecessors had done.
“We entered history by electing the first woman president in 2024, said Geingob in a speech delivered Monday, November 28 in the Windhoek capital. I would like to tell him that the task that awaits him . “
Swapo has directed Namibia since independence and remains the largest political party in the country, but its popularity has recently decreased due to the dissatisfaction aroused by endemic unemployment and a corruption scandal which led to the arrest of ‘former ministers and businessmen related to the party.
The party lost its majority of two thirds in the National Assembly in the last general elections of 2019 and the share of Mr. Geingob’s votes fell to just over 50 %, against 87 % five years earlier . Since then, he has lost control of key municipalities, including Windhoek, the port cities of Walvis Bay and Swakopmund, and several regional councils.