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WINDHOEK, Namibia — Namibia’s longtime ruling party might see its grip on this desert nation weakened in elections that began Friday, with a challenge from a new breakaway party hoping to attract voters dissatisfied with corruption and leadership scandals.
President Hifikepunye Pohamba, who is seeking a second five-year term, was among the first to vote when polls opened in the two-day election.
Fourteen parties are taking part in the elections, with 12 contesting the presidential poll. Presidential contender Hidipo Hamutenya, a former foreign minister, hopes to challenge the absolute majority of Pohamba’s party with his Rally for Democracy and Progress, or RDP, formed in 2007.
