DEPUTY mayor of Windhoek, Ian Subasubani, has failed to make the list of Swapo candidates who will contest in the regional council and local authority elections next month.
Subasubani is the youngest of the 15-member Windhoek municipal council whose term will come to an end before the November elections.
He is now among nine current Swapo councillors of the Windhoek municipality who were voted out at an internal party election on Sunday.
Former mayor Muesee Kazapua also failed to make the list of 15 candidates for the party.
Current mayor Fransina Kahungu is one of only three incumbent councillors who survived Sunday’s primaries.
Swapo youth league graduate Emanuel Paulus and councillor Teckla Uwanga also made the list.
Other serving councillors who did not make Swapo’s list include long-serving councillor Moses Shiikwa, Loide Kaiyamo, Ananias Niizimba, Hileni Uulumbu, Agatha Ashilelo, Matilda Ukeva and Mathew Amadhila.
Windhoek is currently governed by a multiparty council of 15 members.
The ruling party currently occupies 12 of the council’s 15 seats, while the Popular Democratic Movement, the Rally for Democracy and Progress and the National Unity Democratic Organisation occupy one seat each.
Names on the new Swapo candidate list include Magdalena Lombardt, Austin Kwenani, Queen Kamati, Shafa Nujoma, Matheus Shoongo, Kaenda Naftali, Johannes Erastus, Albertina Amutenya, France Kaundinge, Sakarias Uunona, Frederika Shigwedha, and Aina Henok.
The Windhoek municipality is a one-constituency municipal council.
This means all 15 councillors represent the whole municipal area as one constituency.
Councillors are not employed on a full-time or executive local councillorship system.
Candidates elected by political parties and registered organisations during internal elections need to be officially nominated through the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN).
Nominations started last week and are expected to end on 16 October.
The nominations and submission of political party lists will be conducted by the ECN’s returning officers at constituency level.
