President Edgar Lungu has yet to concede defeat, and has indicated that he might challenge the result, which will be difficult, given the margin
Lusaka — Opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema secured a stunning landslide victory over incumbent Edgar Lungu in Zambia's presidential election, results showed on Monday.
That would make the third time that power has shifted peacefully from a ruling party to the opposition since the Southern African country's independence from Britain in 1964. That was owing to an explosive mix of depressed commodity prices — which had pushed Zambia into recession well before the pandemic — and a brutal slowdown in economic activity caused by the pandemic itself.
Lungu has yet to concede defeat, and has indicated that he might challenge the result, which will be difficult, given the margin.
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