Although the Affirmative Repositioning (AR) leadership says it is focused on the local elections in November, a political commentator is wondering whether AR will be able to translate its social movement politics into real national politics.
AR applied to be registered as a political organisation with the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) to be able to participate in the upcoming local authority election in Windhoek come November 2020.
As for now the focus is on the November 2020 election," said the AR deputy chairperson Nathanael Kalola.
"Certainly, it raises the stakes a bit high in terms of local government elections but politics is very complicated unlike social movements where people sympathise with causes without engaging in the formal rituals of politics such as voting and attending rallies," Mare noted.
The first step was when we announced this thing last year - we said that AR would participate in the local authority election in Windhoek to take over the mayoral position," Kalola said.
