Opinion | Zambia: Beyond election winners and losers
The Real Questions We Must Ask: To assess the quality of elections, we must ask whether they secured the enjoyment of rights, whether participation was free and meaningful, whether freedoms were open and protected, whether the procedure was credible and transparent, and whether the process ultimately strengthened nation-building.
The measure of success is not the percentage of votes secured but the extent to which the process strengthened democratic governance and nation‑building.
If the answer to any of these questions is no, then there is a serious problem that must be addressed, because elections are not a game or a joke; they are the lifeblood of democratic governance and the true measure of a sovereign state’s progress and commitment to its people.
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