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|name               = Zambia Presidential Election Petition, 2016
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|full name          =[[Hakainde Hichilema]], [[UPND]] President & running mate [[Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba]] v President-Elect [[Edgar Lungu]], [[PF]] President & running mate [[Inonge Wina]] & Electroal Commission of Zambia[2016]
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The '''Zambia Presidential Election Petition of 2016''' was an election petition aiming to declare the Zambian presidential election 2016 as being rigged. The Petition was filed at the constitutional court in Lusaka on 19 August 2016<ref name=ZED>{{cite web|title= UPND successfully files in Presidential Petition |url= https://www.lusakatimes.com/2016/08/19/upnd-successfully-files-in-presidential-petition/|publisher=Lusaka Times |accessdate= 23 August 2016}}</ref>. The petitioners of the presidential elections are Mr Hakainde Hichilema, UPND President and his running mate Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba<ref name=ZED/>.

==Case==
===Background===
The main petitioner [[Hakainde Hichilema]] president of the [[UPND]] in a press conference held at the official house of the UPND announced that they will file in a presidential election petition against the [[2016 general elections]] and dully elected President-elect [[Edgar Lungu]]. The petition states that there is need for a recount of the total votes cast across the country due to numerous irregularities that were gathered before, during and after the elections. And the petition stipulates that President-elect [[Edgar Lungu]] and his running mate [[Inonge Wina]] must not be sworn in as dully elected, citing their allowance of cabinet minister’s stay in office even if the constitution did not permit. 

According to the Constitution, under the constitutional court any presidential election that is said to be fraudulent with indisputable evidence must be nullified. The constitution also states that once a petition is filed in by the claimants of victory for presidency, the Constitutional court must allow for a speaker or chief justice to act as President.
===Court ruling===
On 5 September [[The Constitutional Court]] dismissed the petition against the election of President Edgar Lungu by  United Party for National Development  leader Hakainde Hichilema and his running mate Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba on grounds that its mandate lapsed at 23:59 on Friday<ref name=ZD>{{cite web|title=Presidential election petition dismissed |url=http://zambianeye.com/archives/51637|publisher=Zambian Eye |accessdate= 23 August 2016}}</ref>.

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[[Category:2016 in Zambia]]
[[Category:Presidential elections in Zambia]]
[[Category:Elections in Zambia]]
[[Category:2016 in Zambian politics]]