Talk:List of members of the National Assembly of Zambia (2016–2021)

Felix Mutati

Apart from this primary source, https://www.parliament.gov.zm/node/353, which other sources exist to show that Felix Mutati was a member of the Patriotic Front (Zambia) party? I understand that it was the PF President (Edgar Lungu) that appointed him as the Minister of Finance and Minister of Works and Supply afterwards, but where does it state that Felix Mutati officially left the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) party to join a different party?

His Wikipedia Page states that he only left the MMD in October 2020, when he officially formed his own party (Movement for Democratic Change; MDC). News stories such as this one and this one state that Felix Mutati was the leader of a faction of the MMD rather than being a member of a separate party. There was a problem in the MMD in that him & Nevers Mumba couldn't agree on who exactly the MMD leader is (they even went to court about it). From what I understand, he simply agreed to work with the Patriotic Front (the government of the day) but was never one of them at any single point during his time as a minister.

I just can't seem to understand why this article [List of members of the National Assembly of Zambia (2016–2021)] has got Patriotic Front written next to his name while his BLP article (Felix Mutati) does not mention him being part of any political party that is not the MMD before he formed the MDC party. Looking at the two sources I have mentioned above (dated 2019), which talk about the MMD having factions and Mutati being the leader of one of them, was Felix Mutati really, officially a member of the Patriotic Front (Zambia) party? GeographicAccountant (talk) 21:51, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

I'll stick to the conclusion that he was an ally of the PF and not really a member. I think it has been proven that he was contesting the MMD leadership at the time & so, he did not officially cross-over to any other Political Party before he created the MDC in October 2020.

I guess I will leave this article as it is, even though there it is clearly written on the Felix Mutati page that he never joined another party before 2020 (meaning he never joined the PF). GeographicAccountant (talk) 08:33, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

Well, I forgot that I have already written this here. Anyway, I have now made the edit and I insist that Wikipedia should avoid stating that Felix Mutati was a member of the Patriotic Front party, as he never was.

Just as the sources state, he was "claiming to be the president of the MMD" at the time and so, he and Nevers Mumba had to go to court over the matter until the verdict was given in 2020. Automatically, we cannot say that Felix Mutati was a member of any party that is not the MMD during that period, just as it is stated on his Wikipedia BLP page.

I am just making sure that all the pages on Wikipedia that have this person mentioned are showing the exact-same thing about which Political Parties he has been a member of in his life. In the same way Raphael Nakacinda is mentioned in the Second Lungu Cabinet despite being in a separate party from the President, Felix Mutati should be mentioned here as a person who was in a "different party" from the President. Thanks. Anybody with a differing belief should reply here. GeographicAccountant (talk) 01:36, 1 November 2024 (UTC)