Saleshando not contesting in 2014 elections

LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent | Wednesday March 31, 2010 00:00

 

Saleshando who is also the BCP president, won the Selibe-Phikwe constituency in last year's general elections by a margin of 674.  He toppled former MP, Kavis Kario, of the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP).  Saleshando has also indicated that he would not be contesting the BCP presidency during the party's congress to be held in July this year.   The Selibe-Phikwe West constituency remains crucial to the BCP because it was one of the additional parliamentary seats that the party clinched in last year's general elections.

In 1994 Saleshando made it to parliament as the MP for Selibe Phikwe under a Botswana National Front (BNF) ticket.  This was at a time when Selibe Phikwe was just one constituency.  But in 1998, Saleshando together with other BNF MPs, defected from the party to form the BCP.  This followed the irreconcilable differences that the central committee had with former BNF president, the late Dr Kenneth Koma. 

Saleshando subsequently tried his luck in the 1999 and then the 2004 general elections on a BCP ticket, but was not successful.  He only managed to make a comeback last year.