Former President Zambia Edgar Lunge died at the age of 68, his party said in the statement.
He was “received a specialized treatment in South Africa” for an undisclosed disease, added Patriotic Front (PF).
Lungu has been LED Zambia for six years since 2015. year, losing the menu 2021 to the current president of Hakaind Hichilem’s big margin.
After that defeat, he stepped back from politics, but later returned to Fray. He had ambitions to see the presidency again, but at the end of last year, the Constitutional Court was banned from running, the verdict that he had already served a maximum of two concepts allowed by law.
Even after they are again disqualified to run again for the Presidency, he remained in strengthening in Zambian politics and did not stay in his successor critique.
In a short videoLungua Tasila said that the former head of the state, who was “under the medical supervision of the last few weeks,” he died at the South Africa City Center, Pretoria, on Thursday at 06:00 (04:00 CET) Thursday.
“At the moment, we invited the spirit of” one Zambia “, one nation” – a timeless belief that was led by the Service of President Lung in our country, “she added to an emotional statement.
It was not mentioned what his condition was, but ten years ago passed the throat surgery abroad. At the time when his office said he suffers from the narrowing of the esophagus.
In his message sympathyPresident Hichilem called on “ceremony, unity and spill of love and compassion.
“Let us gather as one nation, above political affiliation or personal belief, we respect the life of a man who once held the highest office in our country.”
Lungu became the president in January 2015 for the first time. After beating special presidential elections launched death at Michael SAT.
After the end of the SAT-present term, he won five more years in power in 2016. in 2016. year in the amount of only over 50% of the vote.
But after six years on Helma, Lung, which encouraged Chinese investment and enrolled in the country’s development in the development of infrastructure, for the fight against economics, high levels of unemployment and growing debt.
His time in the office is engaged in both corruption scandals involving their allies and relatives. Lung always denied an injustice.
The youth wing of his party was charged with harassment of the supporters of the opposition and the population as a whole.
Lungu lost in 2021. near a million votes with Hichilem, seen as several Westerners, who cling to broad dissatisfaction among the polling stationary terrain.
He said he retired after votes, but returned to Frontline Politika 2023. years, because the popularity of his heirs waned.
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After returning to politics, the former president complained of police harassment. At one point last year he said he was “almost under his house arrest.”
“I can’t move from my house without me to tell me the police cannot receive and cause me to return home,” Lungu told the BBC news program.
In the interview in May 2024. He argued that he was banned from attending a conference abroad and from travel to medical treatment.
2023. The police warned him against the public’s run, describing his weekly exercises as “political activism.”
The government said that Lung “was never put in home arrest” and that it was free to achieve its rights.
Lungu was a lawyer, but he enjoyed the meteoric growth of politics after conquering the place in parliament as the PF MP in 2011. years.
The government entered the Deputy Minister in the Vice-President in that year and stood up to become the Minister of Code Jobs in just over 12 months.
He later became the Minister of Defense, and then justice. A close friend of Lungu described as “a good soldier, a lawyer and a politician, father, husband and grandparents.”
He was born on 11. November 1956. year, Lunga graduated with the law from the University of Zambia in 1981. years. He also underwent military training at the then Faculty of Miltez in the Kabve.
He later worked at Andre Masiye and company lawyers, Banks Barclays and Zambia consolidated copper mine.
Additional reporting via BBC Monitoring
2025-06-05 16:37:00
