Zambia’s top court bars ex-leader from contesting future elections ...Middle East

Lusaka: Zambia’s Constitutional Court has ruled that former President Edgar Lungu is barred from contesting the 2026 general elections and any future elections, as he has already served the constitutionally mandated two terms in office. The court determined Monday that Lungu is not eligible to run again, having been elected twice — first from 2015 to 2016 and again from 2016 to 2021. In a landmark judgment delivered by six judges, the court dismissed Lungu’s argument that his first term should not count as a full term since he had completed the remainder of the term left by his late predecessor Michael Sata, Xinhua news agency reported. Justice Arnold Shilimi, deputy president of the Consti

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