The Zambia Democratic Congress (ZADECO), also known as the Zambia Development Conference, is a political party in

Zambia Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern and East Africa. It is typically referred to being in South-Central Africa or Southern Africa. It is bor ...

History

The party was established in May 1995 by former ministers Dean Mungomba and Derrick Chitala after they were sacked by President

Frederick Chiluba Frederick Jacob Titus Chiluba (30 April 1943 – 18 June 2011) was a Zambian politician who was the second president of Zambia from 1991 to 2002. Chiluba, a trade union leader, won the country's multi-party presidential election in 1991 as th ...

. Mungomba was the party's presidential candidate in the 1996 general elections, finishing second in a field of five candidates with 13% of the vote. In the parliamentary elections the party nominated 141 candidates, receiving 14% of the vote but only winning two seats in the

National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repr ...

. In 1998 some members broke away to form the Zambia Democratic Party. In 1999 ZADECO joined the Zambia Alliance for Progress, which failed to win a seat in the 2001 general elections. It was subsequently part of the National Democratic Focus for the 2006 general elections,Republic of Zambia
IFES with the NDF winning a single seat.

References

{{Zambian political parties Political parties in Zambia Political parties established in 1995 1995 establishments in Zambia