The New Democratic Front is a progressive
political party
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...
in
Botswana
Botswana (, ), officially the Republic of Botswana ( tn, Lefatshe la Botswana, label=Setswana, ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory being the Kalahar ...
without parliamentary representation. Led by Dick Bayford, it split away from the
Botswana National Front
The Botswana National Front (BNF) is a social democratic political party in Botswana. It has been the main opposition party in Botswana since the 1969 elections.
The party achieved its greatest electoral success in the 1994 elections, when it ...
in 2003. It won 0.78% of the popular votes at the elections that followed. After its poor performance in the
2004 general elections, the party joined forces with Botswana's third largest party, the
Botswana Congress Party
The Botswana Congress Party (BCP) is a political party in Botswana. The BCP was founded in 1998 in a split from the Botswana National Front, with most of the BNF's sitting Members of Parliament joining the new party after a leadership dispute w ...
.
Political parties in Botswana
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