His left-wing coalition Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) swept up more than half the seats in parliament.
GABORONE - Botswana's president-elect Duma Boko is a human rights lawyer who spent three decades in opposition fighting to dislodge the party in power for nearly 60 years before clinching his surprise landslide victory.
"It shocked me in terms of the numbers and the intensity with which people attended to the vote," Boko told the independent Mmegi media outlet Friday. He entered politics as a young man when he joined the Botswana National Front -- the main opposition to the BDP since independence -- later becoming its leader in 2010.
"He's very ambitious," said Keith Jefferis, an independent economist and former Botswana government official."He's a smart guy, he's got a strange mixture of humility and arrogance and we'll see which one comes through," he told AFP.
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