Political parties have expressed their eagerness and look forward to the sitting of the National Assembly next year as they remain resolute in outlining their legislative priorities.
The Swapo Party retained the majority in the National Assembly with 51 seats, a notable decline from the 63 seats it secured in the 2019 national elections.
IPC, contesting in its first National Assembly election, emerged as the second largest with 20 seats.
PDM, the then strong opposition, saw a sharp decline from 16 seats in 2019 to just 5 seats.
Other parties, including UDM, APP, NEFF, BCP, NDP, NUDO, RP, UDF, and Swanu, each secured 1 or 2 seats.
As they head to the National Assembly, some political parties that secured seats state some of the top topics they will prioritize in the National Assembly in 2025.
LPM's spokesperson, Lifalaza Simaata, said, "We divided the issues into four pillars; land issues and agriculture are the biggest ones. In fact, it has its own pillar. We believe that agriculture is the biggest backbone of any country when it comes to development; it is the biggest employer as it is, and we as Namibia are underutilizing it completely, so we are trying and ensuring that we capitalize in that area."
"Once we are in parliament, we will keep and should keep partisan aside and argue on things that will benefit the people and not only things that will benefit a specific political party so as to jointly bring our manifestos together during our discussions," noted APP's President Ambrosius Kumbwa.
UDF President Hendrick Gaobaeb added that "We are entering parliament to ensure that the sporting sector also gets much of the attention because we know that that industry has got the ability to create more jobs as well. We are entering parliament to advocate that industrialization should take place in Namibia."
Joseph Kauandenge, from the National Unity Democratic Organisation (NUDO), said, "The agricultural sector of our economy has been really underbudgeted, and we want to see whether there is a way that it can be addressed in the upcoming parliament so that the ministry of agriculture always gets enough budget because it's that ministry that also needs to deal with drought."
Swanu's president, Evilastus Kaaronda, added that development can never take place when there is so much inequality; the greatest challenge we have, then, is to fight the structural economic impediments that inhibit our people from accessing opportunities, whether they are funding through industrial projects or business projects.
"We need to see what we can do about unemployment and poverty, especially among the youth. We need to find a way, and we need to find it quickly; the numbers are ever-increasing," said RP's Henk Mudge.
NDP President Lukato highlighted that "NDP's vision is to make sure that we build a new Namibia that has been known for high crime, high unemployment, high corruption, and tribalism, so the vision of NDP is to make sure those factors are completely abolished."