As Namibia Votes, the ruling Party’s Preferred Candidate is Nandi-Ndaitwah

If Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, Namibia’s vice president, wins Wednesday’s presidential election, she might become the nation’s first female president.

Fifteen political parties are vying for seats in the National Assembly and the presidency, and at least 1.4 million individuals, or roughly half of the population, have registered to vote.

At a rally for members of her party, the South West Africa People’s Organization, Nandi-Ndaitwah declared, “I’m proud to have the mentality of liberation because I’ve liberated the people of Namibia politically and I’m now ready to liberate them economically.” McHenry Venaani, the head of the Popular Democratic Movement, encouraged people to vote by telling them to “get up, stand in the long lines, and cast their vote for the future.

The Electoral Commission of Namibia published the results of special early polls conducted for Namibia’s security forces, sailors, and foreign missions this month, and they show that Nandi-Ndaitwah and her party, the South West Africa People’s Organization, or SWAPO, are leading. Since the country’s 1990 independence from South Africa’s apartheid minority government, SWAPO has been in charge of the southwest African nation.

However, for the first time since 1994, the party lost its two-thirds majority in the National Assembly in 2019. Many have blamed its poor election result on claims of money laundering and corruption in Namibia’s fishing sector.

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