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Mundubile’s Nrpup Withdraws from Tonse Alliance with Immediate Effect
BREAKING | NRPUP quits Tonse Alliance as post-election rupture deepens The National Restoration Party for Unity and Prosperity has withdrawn from the Tonse Alliance with immediate effect, opening a major new chapter in the opposition only days after Brian Mundubile contested the presidency on the…
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BREAKING | NRPUP quits Tonse Alliance as post-election rupture deepens
The National Restoration Party for Unity and Prosperity has withdrawn from the Tonse Alliance with immediate effect, opening a major new chapter in the opposition only days after Brian Mundubile contested the presidency on the NRPUP ticket.
NRPUP Secretary General Nonde Mubanga announced the decision on Sunday, saying it followed consultations and an assessment of the party’s political direction.
“After careful consideration and extensive consultations, a decision has been made to withdraw from the current Tonse Alliance arrangements,” Mubanga said.
The move is particularly significant because NRPUP provided the registered political platform through which Mundubile and his running mate Makebi Zulu contested the August 13 election. The alliance supplied the broader coalition, but NRPUP carried the candidates and now has elected representatives emerging from the election.
Mubanga described the withdrawal as strategic rather than hostile. “Withdrawal should not be interpreted as animosity or opposition towards any individual or organisation within the alliance,” he said, adding that NRPUP wanted a political course aligned with its own long-term objectives.
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The announcement follows several days of visible differences inside the opposition. NRPUP president Ezra Tembo has already accepted President-elect Hakainde Hichilema’s victory, while Mundubile has rejected the presidential result and indicated plans to challenge it in court.
Tonse founder Chris Zumani Zimba has also publicly opposed proceeding with a presidential petition.
NRPUP’s departure therefore raises an immediate question over Mundubile’s political position outside the alliance arrangement which carried his presidential campaign, and how the newly elected NRPUP parliamentary bloc will organise itself.
What began as disagreement over how to respond to electoral defeat has now become an institutional separation. NRPUP has left Tonse. The vehicle which carried the alliance into the election is taking its own road.
-The People’s Brief | Ollus R. Ndomu
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