The Zambia Republican Party is a

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 ...

Zambia Zambia (), officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern and East Africa, although it is typically referred to as being in Southern Africa at its most cent ...

History

The ZRP was formed in February 2001 as a merger of the

Zambia Alliance for Progress The Zambia Alliance for Progress (ZAP) was a political party in Zambia. History The ZAP was formed in 1999 as a merger of six parties; including the Agenda for Zambia (AZ), the Labour Party, the Lima Party, the National Christian Coalition (NCC) ...

(ZAP), the Republican Party and the National Republican Party; however, the ZAP later withdrew from the merger.Tom Lansford (2014) ''Political Handbook of the World 2014'', CQ Press, p1617 In the December 2001 general elections it nominated

Benjamin Mwila Benjamin Yoram Mwila (September 17, 1943 – August 17, 2013), often known as BY, was a Zambian politician and businessman. Mwila was a prominent leader and co-founder of the Zambia Republican Party. He served as an MP for Luanshya in the Nationa ...

as its presidential candidate; Mwila finishing sixth in a field of eleven candidates with 5% of the vote. In the

National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repre ...

elections the party received 6% of the vote, winning a single seat. In June 2006 a faction of the party left to join the

Movement for Multi-Party Democracy The Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD) also known as New Hope MMD is a political party in Zambia. Originally formed to oust the previous government, MMD controlled an absolute majority in parliament between 1991 and 2001, when its past lead ...

. In the build-up to the September 2006 general elections the ZRP joined the

National Democratic Focus The National Democratic Focus (NDF) was a political alliance in Zambia. History The alliance was formed in 2006 as the National Democratic Front, and was initially planned to consist of the Party for Unity, Democracy and Development (PUDD), the ...

alliance. The NDF did not nominate a presidential candidate, but won a single seat in the National Assembly elections, taken by Mwila. Prior to the 2011 general elections Mwila left to join the MMD.

References

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