Heritage Party (Zambia)

Heritage Party is a political party in Zambia.

Election results

In the election in Zambia in 2001, the party won 7.4 percent of the vote and four of the 150 seats in the National Assembly. Its candidate for the presidency, Godfrey Miyanda, a former vice-president ( 1993-97 ) and brigadier general in the time of Kenneth Kaunda, was put 8.09 percent of the vote. In the election in Zambia in 2006 they failed to enter parliament and its presidential candidate, Godfrey Miyanda could unite only 1.57 percent of the votes.

Political positions

The Heritage party is bound strongly Christian- religious. It is rooted in the UNIP. In their goals and values ​​, it is strongly influenced by the independence movement, and thus focused on the past. It is hardly to be expected that they will take up again in the 2011 elections, because the political force field in Zambia has completely reorganized.