Democratic Choice soon experienced further problems, culminating in the sentencing of its two leaders to several years in jail, and, last November, its deregistration as a recognised organisation.
If any voters are given ballots marked in advance in her favour, it says, they should check another box as well to render their vote invalid.This week's deregistration of some opposition candidates drew large protests in three of the country's seven regions.
As such, the party would have lost its 53 parliamentary seats—one-third of the seats in the National Assembly but in June Zambia's High Court overturned the decision to use deregistration as a penalty.
If they haven't improved by then, they are likely to be judged inadequate and we are going to recommend closure and deregistration".
The NLD contends its deregistration by the government was illegal, but a lawsuit seeking its reinstatement was dismissed.
Navigating away from the deregistration button, I smiled as I dried my cheeks.
AFTER logging 460 training miles since June, I found myself staring at my computer screen, my thumb on the track pad hovering over the deregistration button for the 2010 New York City Marathon.
Even after the penalty of 12 competition points, a $1m fine, the loss of the Auckland Nines and the deregistration of five senior officials, Sharp remained defiant, launching an ill-fated legal action against the NRL after the interim ruling in May.
"I started the blog because I was having a miserable time at university and I was threatened with deregistration," Servante says.
In the clearest signal yet that allegations of government involvement in the allocation of land to large commercial enterprises are embarrassing President Yoweri Museveni and government elites, Oxfam and the Uganda Land Alliance (ULA) were called this week to the home affairs ministry and threatened with deregistration by the internal affairs minister Hilary Onek.
But nagging doubts over the seriousness of the fascist threat and of the sacrifices being made by his comrades led him to apply for deregistration, after which he obtained a commission.
