PRESIDENTIAL TERM LIMITS; DOES THE PRESIDENT NEED MORE TIME? 

We need more of this, well done Diamond👏👏👏👏

While the five year term is good enough, there is need to have binding rules for transfer of power from one ruling party to another. In today's system, the losing administration just abandons the office without any proper handover. This results in the new team having to start from nowhere. We saw the recent example where UPND took more than one year to carry out what they called an audit just to establish where the other team left. That was one year gone out of the five years. In addition, the fifth year is wasted on campaigns for the next term.

Five-year is enough. What runs the country is a political party, not personal.

Awesome meeting of minds, especially that of hon chisanga and Ms miti

Such programs a must to have Diamond, well done.

For development to take place we must to do away with directors and permanent secretaries being appointed by the president. Doing so brings people who have to learn their work first before they start to deliver. Our directors and permanent secretaries must be people who have risen through the system through promotions. As long as these top civil servants continue to be appointed by sitting presidents they will always be considered by incoming governments as political stooges for the outgoing ones, therefore they will fire them and bring in their own.

Laura miti and mr chisenga,have spoken truth and so open.How i wish zambians can consider Laura's proposal.

Power has the tendance to corrupt and when the term is long it means the people will have to endure bad governance the longest and when the administration is effective you want them go further , on that basis i think 5years two terms is good enough but they must legally binding obligation to the outgoing government to properly hand over national projects

Kalomo Central is a mess yet the honourable speaks good English and sense...

This is very recommendable continue with such programs

Diamond has done it imwee hope the current government is listening very educative debate teyabana imwe

Very interesting debating

More of these debates is the way to go. Congratulations diamond tv

We gave you the rules,yet we never in the rules said u should raise the standards of living,long hours of loadsheding on us.... I mean do these selected leaders even follow the given rules by the people of the country? Rather we the people become victims of fear and accept the rules made by the people we put I office indirectly...just thinking out loud

Indeed we need more of this information or debate

It should actually 4 years with a 2 year limit for Ministers.

We are supporting you daimond TV

On POA politicians have not been honest,while in opposition they see the evil side of it, but once in government it becomes an angel.

I think we need more of these debates than rallies I mean political parties, presidents should be having these platforms to answer questions from the general public I must confess that I really enjoyed this debate and I realized that Zambians are too Wise to be fooled by these politicians.

Indeed we should not stumble into leadership,we should prepare ourselves for leadership like other aspects of life. Secondly the idea of amending the constitution and using it to fix our perceived opponents should be stopped and never entertained, am glad to see such progressive minds the likes of the two Lawmakers,they sound very sober👏👏

This is amazing diamond tv we need more of more these conversations

Well done diamond you are truly a jewel

we need more of these debates, is the way to go, or perhaps the reverse. what I mean is that only a few were able to offer long-term, innovation ideas, while others focused on complaints and historical perspectives. Perhaps if we had more inspired young politicians on the panel, along with experienced individuals in position of power as the audience, we could create a space for the innovative minds to share their ideas as well. this would allow us to learn and grow. blending science with an art. I like the way the legal practitioner came out with each point, we need to rule this country more a an organization and less of a system .

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Well done Diamond, wish ZNBC could open the comment section on its RU-vid posts

Very impressive debate. I like the panel the way they are presenting their points . I give the debate A+

Enjoyable ✌️

Well done Diamond TV. Looking forward to the Presidential Debate very soon. Keep it up.

We need more of this, Kudos Diamond TV 👏🏼 💯

Honaurable from Kalomo you are a leader you deserve respect

Congratulations diamond TV for always being innovative. These are things we need

Well done Diamond...only thing is the moderators questions are extremely long winded.

Good food for thought... Thinking within and without the box...

This is awesome, i love the show....

Just like in proquierment there are rules that governs how a business should be done for example if you have proquiered to build a road or say a building first and foremost just before you do anything first stage of tender process they will give a specific time frame when you get a document to study it before you submit it so one of the condition first will be time for submission if you delay to meet the given time you are deemed disqualified and also when you have had been given a contract and fail to deliver in a given stupleted period you will be surcharged what is known as liquidated damage so each time you going into any business first thing you do is a research and also one needs to enquire about the business you are going into to minimize making a lot of mistakes and waste so precious time to deliver so politician have a great deal to learn good governance and also understand the history of the world country they are intending to govern before they dive on board failure to do this it will be dangerous disastrous for one such a people to attempt to go into the office Good bless my simple observation ya

Democracy without strong guiding principles will never develop a nation. E.G we want to make a bicycle with all material available but with different ideas on how to make it and we a given 5min each to assemble the bike. You will see the first person starting with spikes the moment is finishing one wheel his time is up another one is elected he wastes 2min blaming the guy who started with spike and another 3min undoing the spikes, another one is elected only to start with assembling the fork and so on. That how democracy without guiding principles is. I am not saying democracy is bad, but we need defined rules and guidelines on transition of power.

The president doesn't need more time. What the president needs is to stop playing partisan politics and focus on the wellbeing of the country. If that were to happen, the 5-year run wouldn't seem so short. The country's long-term goals should be embraced by each political party that comes into power. The lack of adherence to national goals is what makes the country's economic development to stall, because each political party has their own 5-year agenda to achieve. Lack of National long term agendas is why we are even having this loadshedding problem right now.

Good debate. I propose that for the next debate, let's have The Public Order Act as the topic of discussing.

If serious 5 years is enough and the rest is corruption

Very insightful program. Keep it up, Diamond TV

we need more of these conversations

The issue is to leave a foot print/ a legacy look at how long it took for MMD then when they came in office after UNIP to sort out transport problem. it did not take long.. The two term should just continue.

This is a very interesting conversation....insightful

The term limit is for the president and not the party

point well spoken 🎉❤

Sound Engineer you had one job, otherwise this is great content.

Guys this good 👍 thanks diamond tv

Five years is ok but they should really handover properly.

This is great 👍👍

Yes bring the leaders here for more articulation

Fine (5) years term is enough to deliver just from word go UNIP started it.

In my opinion, two terms are not enough but five years is okay for people to vote on whether the current president should be given another term. We get poor services from the president elected in order for them to give something they can show for, but sometimes quality takes time. If a president has been fighting corruption for ten years and then we elect a president who promotes corruption, that is a problem. If the benefits and the elected president is doing the best, I think he can continue for as many terms as possible. I see no point of changing

I would rather i have Rwanda kind of democracy than a Sithole

Not so sure if any employee from diamond tv will see my comment. I would suggest that you pass a rule to deny your audience of take pictures with their phones. It looked so unprofessional. Unless those are other media houses, of which I highly doubt.

Good work diamond

This is a way to go,

We choose democracy which is defined as by the people for the people meaning it is given by the people to work for their goods. We don't want dictatorship to develop need persons that have plans for the people not for their goods so if they don't have plans for the country to develop it let them pack and go not hiding in in time, we need development not stollyz

I find the topic misplaced. Generally, there is NO discussion around extending the term of office.

INCREASE FOR WHAT MMMMMM WE HAVE TO REDUCE TO 4

Kudos to you jona

Making decisions because of a person will lead to future problems

I like this kalomo mp he speak sense

Reduce the Term to 4years just 4yrs ,No one is Force to be president ,Complaining over predissessor is non go ,He who go 4 war doesn't celebrate like one coming from war

Good contribution from all panelist. Interesting and educative....but became a broadway discussion especially that the Topic missed it's intention and purpos, however, good learning ground and don't fill such forums with students, but both potentially politically intrestees from ruling and opposition parties. This will balance and unfold many wrong laws both acted on now and previously. I'm not discrediting the many youths, but hope to see more Civic leaders and retired politicians in the audience to maximise questions to the panelist. Next time, move places even on the same topic....let it be deliberated on by others in other towns as Zambian is not Lusaka nor Lusaka... Zambia. DrH DrH Dr7 2031

Good debate but my opinion on this matter, term limits should be reduced. Having it minimized will have the government of the day concentrate on work that needs to be done. That 5 years should be reduced to 3 years....

Good program. Next time bring people with opposing views because it a debate.

Bring ECL and Lusambo on such programmes next time😅

Making a decision for an individual it will plough a seed of disaster 5 years it's enough

Nope, 5 years is just ok. We can review later but not now.

Its a good discussion, however you guys nearly went off a number of times. Please you should have kept the topic ''Presidential Term'' going unlike discussing democracy.

You have missed something.I wanted to hear how mwanawasa defeated his own chiluba just after he became president and how chiluba willingfully fought our kk.

The two men ran away from the first question of the PF not having enough time....they dodged it somehow

This debate is very good. Let Jonah come to rural areas with the same debate. Joseph Chinsali

Democracy a harm to zambian development,beacuse everyone wants what they want hence time moves and hence no developments takes place period.

Awe, the moderator is debating the panel because they have, rightly refused to agree with the proposition

Zambia like talking,meetings,funtions,church.Working is not their favorit.

the sound is bad, please sound engineers do something.

This is a very strange debate. No one on the panel is advocating for the proposition. I think the media is out of touch with the realities of the people and what matters to them

Thanks Laura. I was wondering where this is coming from. Who wants to change the term?

THIS IS A CONVERSATION NOT DEBATE

Who is debating this issue? This is divesionary

I like the way Kalomo MP is coming out.

How is it that all your panelists did was tell you that your debate topic was stupid? Lol. Did they agree to get on stage just so that they could tear down the conversation? Unproductive patronizing lectures throughout. At the end of the day, 5 years is an arbitrary choice for a term limit. It is conceivable for the optimal limit to be fewer or greater than 5 years. Suppose the term limit was actually 18 months. Would it be absurd to debate whether 5 years actually made more sense? Miti's opening contribution was unhelpful and a little disingenuous. Why dismiss the question in the preface to your answer? Your job as a panelist is to earnestly contemplate the question and answer it to the best of your ability. The preface reeked of censorship. Zambians, whether a group of 5 or 5 million, can contemplate any question relating to the management and administration of the nation. Just because you're not in rooms where people are asking particular questions about the structure of the nation, does not mean you should dismiss those conversations as absurd and dangerous. I think the question of why a leader or party would want more time should be separate from the question of "what is the optimal number of years that maximizes the likelihood of an administration completing its agenda". The former emphasizes the risk of longer term limits, while the latter forces us to take a step back and engage in the active process of state building and state refinement. My understanding of this debate topic was that DiamondTV was asking the latter question. We can't assume that the state and constitution we have today is the most optimal one. We are a young country, at a mere (almost) 60 years, and should be committed to continuously iterating on the design and structure of the nation. What was the point of having Hon. Kamboni on? To abate the public's fears that UPND is the one driving this conversation?

Thank you diamond

Yes. The President NEEDS a lot of MORE time. A lot of it actually.. AS LONG AS IT IS 10 YEARS MAXIMUM! AIKONA MAN

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These are the educational programs we need as a country we are tired and sick of fruitless useless meaningless press conferences and briefings purely based on finger pointing demeaning fighting individuals insulting leaders day in day out. this is a very good precedence set by diamond TV this is the way to go as a country

In Africa eveeyone is a politician Including pastors, economics ,civil servant Challange

Presidential limits are good , they save the country from unnecessary civil wars since it provides room for change wherever necessary.

Awesome meeting of minds, especially those of hon chisanga and Ms miti

Very interesting debating

The term limit is for the president and not the party

Awesome meeting of minds, especially those of hon chisanga and Ms miti