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LUSAKA vans old skool piel blancas , Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- Political parties in Zambia on Wednesday started making plans ahead of a presidential election necessitated by the death of President Michael Sata.


Following the death of Sata last month, the southern African nation is expected to hold a presidential election at the end of January next year. Sata was buried on Tuesday Nov. 11 after a 14- day mourning period.


Various political parties have expressed willingness to contest the presidential election, with analysts calling on opposition leaders to consider rallying behind one presidential candidate in order to usurp power from the governing Patriotic Front (PF) which has been in power since September 2011.


Hakainde Hichilema, leader of the opposition United Party for National Development (UPND), said he was ready to contest the presidency, adding that his party has commenced campaigns.


The opposition leader however called on politicians to continue restraining themselves as the country passes through the transition period before choosing a new leader.


"Politics is just a competition to serve and, as in any competition, there will always be winners and losers. Let political parties adhere to the rules stipulated in their constituencies in choosing their candidates for the upcoming elections. This is the only way to avoid anarchy," he said in a statement released by his office.


According to him, voters should scrutinize all candidates who shall contest as presidential candidates and choose a leader who shall drive the aspirations of the country to greater heights.


And Edith Nawakwi, the country's only female leading a political party, said she was ready to contest the election and urged voters to vote for her because of her vast experience in politics.


The 56-year-old opposition leader, who is leader of the Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD), said she stands the best chance to take the country forward, according to an interview broadcast on 5FM radio.


Peter Sinkamba, leader of the Green Party, which wants to legalize marijuana if elected, has also said he will contest the presidential race and that he will launch his campaigns this Friday in Kitwe city on the Copperbelt Province.


Meanwhile the governing party is expected to hold an emergency extra-ordinary meeting of its National Executive Committee members with the main agenda being the choosing of a presidential candidate.


Edgar Lungu, the party's secretary-general, said in a notice sent to all national executive members that top on the agenda will be the selection of a leader to succeed Sata.


Divisions have rocked the governing party on the mode of choosing a presidential candidate, with some calling for the national executive committee to choose the candidate while others are saying the new leader should be selected through a general conference.


Guy Scott, the country's interim leader, who is also acting leader of the governing party, said the party will not use shortcut to choose its candidate for the presidential election but will follow its constitution.


Scott told reporters in Lusaka, the country's capital during a briefing that the executive meeting which will meet on Thursday was expected to choose a date for the holding of the general conference to be attended by about 5000 delegates.


Scott is not eligible to contest as president because of a parentage clause in the constitution that bars people with parents not born in Zambia to stand. Scott's parent hail from Scotland.


However, the main opposition party, the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD), is currently embroiled in a leadership crisis, with one group calling on the party's former President Rupiah Banda to stand as its candidate while others want incumbent Nevers Mumba.


Party members from rival camps almost clashed at the party's secretariat in Lusaka on Wednesday morning over who should be the presidential candidate.


Banda, who was Zambia's president from August 2008 to September 2011, has not officially announced his intentions to stand as a candidate but his supporters have been calling on him to do so.


Sata, who ruled Zambia from September 2011 until his death last month, was the country's fifth leader since gaining independence from Britain in 1964.


There are over 30 registered political parties in Zambia but most of them only exist on paper.


Missouri's governor ordered hundreds more National Guard troops on Tuesday to a St. Louis suburb rocked by rioting and looting after a grand jury declined to indict a white policeman in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager.


Attorneys for the family of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old shot to death in Ferguson by officer Darren Wilson in August, condemned as biased the St. Louis County grand jury process that led to Monday's decision not to bring charges.


The killing in Ferguson, a predominantly black city with a white-dominated power structure, underscores the occasionally tense nature of U.S. race relations and sometimes strained ties between African-American communities and the police.


The grand jury's decision sparked racially charged protests that were more intense than unrest that erupted in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, but still much smaller than those that followed the acquittal of police officers in the beating of black motorist Rodney King in Los Angeles two decades ago.


"Last night the rioters did some things to our community we all couldn't have woke up this morning imagining,” Captain Ron Johnson of Missouri Highway Patrol told reporters.


In Ferguson, about a dozen buildings, including a pizza shop and a beauty parlour, burned overnight as protesters took to the streets in anger. Police said protesters fired guns at them, lit patrol cars on fire and hurled bricks into their lines.


Police fired tear gas and flash-bang canisters at demonstrat

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