Election promises remain unfulfilled, and unresolved big issues like debt and mining policy raise questions about ruling party competence, Despite surging into government on a wave of popular relief at the departure of President Edgar Lungu's haphazard, venal government in August 2021, Zambians still await, with dwindling patience, the fulfilment of the election promises of President Hakainde Hichilema and his United Party for National Development (UPND). Little has changed over the year.