00:01Fourteen candidates are throwing their hats in the ring to become Zambia's next president in the upcoming election.
00:07Among them is main opposition challenger Brian Mundubile, seeking to defeat President Hakainde Hishilema.
00:14He says his party campaign has been hampered.
00:17To this end, it's a process. We've not been able to campaign freely.
00:22We were stopped permits, you know, landing rights and permits to fly.
00:28When our opponent, President Hakainde Hishilema, had three helicopters, he could fly and have six rallies a day.
00:36We were only allowed to do our campaigns by road.
00:39I've had no passport for the past four months.
00:42I've had no phones. My phones were confiscated with numbers and, you know, seized four months ago.
00:50A former lawyer, Mundubile emerged as the country's main opposition leader after anti-government parties came together to rally around
00:57him.
00:57He also alleges police interference during the campaign period.
01:03Yeah, so the way we would learn to look at this particular election, let's not look at what will happen
01:07tomorrow or what has happened between today and tomorrow.
01:10OK, throughout the campaign period, we've been unable to campaign.
01:14I'm sure you've watched the pictures, you've seen the videos.
01:16We've had police interference at every stage.
01:20We've had violence from the UPND and yet ECZ has not been able to act and suspend the campaigns of
01:27the UPND.
01:29Hishilema won the presidency in 2021 on his sixth attempt, ousting longtime rival Edgar Lundby with a landslide.
01:36He's widely expected to win a second term.
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