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Independent Patriots for Change
Political party in Namibia
The Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) is a political party in Namibia. It was founded by Panduleni Itula in August 2020. As an independent presidential candidate in the November 2019 election, Itula won the best result of a losing candidates ever in elections in Namibia. At the founding meeting on 2 August 2020 in Windhoek, Itula was elected party president, Brian Kefas Black chairman and Christine Esperanza !Aochamus general secretary.[3][4] Vicepresident is Trevino Forbes.
The party participated in the 2020 local and regional council elections.[5] It won the municipal elections in the commercial hubs Walvis Bay and Swakopmund,[6] and 29 seats in different constituencies in Northern Namibia, hitherto considered an impenetrable SWAPO stronghold.[7]