That made people even more vigilant in the face of the Patriotic Front’s efforts to sway the election toward Mr. Lungu, she said. “I think, in a way, the attempts to subvert the election worked against them,” Ms. Miti said. And Mr. Hichilema’s party generally lost by narrow margins in Mr. Lungu’s strongholds, while winning handily the constituencies most favorable to him. Mr. Lungu posted a lengthy thread on Twitter condemning the killings of two of his supporters and railing about the effect that he said it was having on the elections. That was really the thing that turned the election against the P.F.

Source: International New York Times August 16, 2021 01:41 UTC