Former Junior Sweep It Wins Presidential Election

Opposition leader Michael Sata declared victory today in Zambia's presidential election. This is a historic achievement for Sata, who had been a porter at a railway station in London, England.
According to news agency Reuters, 23 September 2011, the Supreme Court endorsed Sata as the winner of the elections on Friday morning local time. He managed to beat the current president of Zambia, Rupiah Banda.


Sata advantage of relatively thin Banda. 95.3 percent of ballots had been counted, Sata win over 1,150,045 votes, while Banda 961 796.
Sata supporters known by the nickname of King Kobra, considering he is very critical. 74-year-old politician openly reject the domination of foreign mining companies, mainly from China, in the country.
In a campaign, Sata said he would clean up the garbage Zambia of corruption. He wanted to clean all the dirt was as vigorous as when he was a janitor at Victoria Station, London.
"I never complain of what I do. I want to sweep my country even want to make it cleaner than I did when you sweep train station," Sata said at one time to the British journalist, quoted by the daily The Telegraph.
In youth, Sata never draw political science in London. However, to make ends meet, he worked as a janitor for a company British Rail. Not mentioned clearly how long Sata wander in the UK and at the university where he studied.
According to Voice of America, Sata also had a career so the trade unions and police officers before entering the political arena in the early decades of the 1960s. Still a British colony, Zambia was still called Northern Rhodesia.
Sata career in politics has increased. He had become the health minister and minister of labor before it finally came out of the ruling party and formed his own party called the Patriotic Front.
In addition to enforcing the law determined that clean, Sata had vowed not to drink bottled water until "all the people of Zambia have the same right of access to clean water." The promise was contained in the pages of Patriotic Front Party led by Sata.
Rich in copper, Zambia's status is still an impoverished African country. That is why Sata continued to criticize President Banda who has been weak against corruption.
Sata has ever threatened to expel Chinese investors from the mines in Zambia, after emerging cases of foreign managers that treat local workers with impunity.
That is why among political observers in Zambia to assess Sata "speak what you want people to hear." He also likes to talk speak frankly and often made a joke.
Meanwhile, Sata's supporters rejoiced at their leaders celebrated the victory in the capital Lusaka. They sang and cheered as Sata declared the winner of the election.