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Namibia’s Deputy Prime Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah is set to become the southwestern country’s first female president. Namibia’s ruling party recently elected Nandi-Ndaitwah as its vice president. This makes her the frontrunner to lead the party into the country’s upcoming national elections in 2024
Namibia’s Deputy Prime Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah is set to become the southwestern country’s first female president. Namibia’s ruling party recently elected Nandi-Ndaitwah as its vice president. This makes her the frontrunner to lead the party into the country’s upcoming national elections in 2024. The 70-year-old edged out Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila and Environment Minister Pohamba Shifeta in the race for the No. 2 position in the South West African People’s Organization.
President Hage Geingob is due to step down at the end of his current term. However, he refused to endorse a successor as his predecessors had done. Swapo, the political party in power, has led Namibia since independence in 1990 and continues to be the country’s biggest political party. Its popularity has recently waned because of discontent over rampant unemployment and a graft scandal that led to the arrests of former cabinet ministers and businessmen linked to the party.
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The party lost its two-thirds majority in the National Assembly in the last general election in 2019. Geingob’s share of the vote fell to just over 50%, from 87% five years earlier.
