Masisi faces unhappy BDP caucus An unhappy group of Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) MPs is headed for a showdown with party Chairman Slumber Tsogwane over the floor crossing Bills that will be brought to Parliament, which starts on Monday, under a huge cloud of controversy. The Minister for Presidential Affairs, Governance and Public Administration Kabo Morwaeng and his colleague at Local Government and Rural Development, Eric Molale will from next week bring to Parliament on urgency, Bills that will effectively block sitting MPs and Councillors from defecting to a different political party. Should the Bills be passed into law, a sitting MP or Councillor will lose incumbency should they choose to change political affiliation as the new law will declare the seat vacant. The Bills An Amendment Bill, 2020- Bill No.14 of 2020 was published in the Government Gazette of 17th July 2020. “The object of the Bill is to insert a new paragraph 1 (d) at Section 68 to cause a vacancy in the seat of an Elected Member of the National Assembly who, having been elected to the National Assembly as a candidate for political party, resigns from the political party,” reads part of a Bill. During the…