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constitution, Charlotte Scott petitioned the validity of the election. On 24 November 2016, the High Court of Zambia nullified the election of
Mwanakatwe, on grounds of violence, corruption, mis-use of Government resources, discrimination / racism, and the actions of the Zambia Police in preventing Dr Scott from campaigning freely. The Constitutional Court subsequently ruled that Mwanakatwe maintains the seat pending appeal, but has not set a date for that appeal to be heard.
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during this time. The couple became the country's first white
President and First Lady. Despite their new positions, the Scotts did not move into Government House, the residence of the country's president. Guy Scott was barred by law from running for the remainder of Sata's unexpired presidential
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suffered major damage during the attack. She told a newspaper, "Our team did not retaliate. Why can't we campaign in peace? This is completely unacceptable!" The PF candidate, Margaret
Mwanakatwe, defeated Scott in the general election on 11 August 2016. In line with the provisions of the
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Scott served as the Chief of Social Policy and
Economic Analysis, Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation for UNICEF's Zambian branch for five years from 2007 until 2012. She worked in nearly every district in Zambia in that position. She stepped down for her position at
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President Sata. United Nations regulations required that employees whose spouses attain high political office either step down from their job or taking another position with the United Nations in another country. She chose to leave her post.
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President of Zambia until a by-election could be held 90 days after Sata's death. The events made Charlotte Scott the
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conditional based upon the receivers' actions. In 2014, two years after Scott left the program, her
Zambian cash transfer program was named UNICEF's best global research program.
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for more than twenty years. She headed the team which created and launched the
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banned presidential candidates whose parents were not born in Zambia. His parents had immigrated to present-day Zambia from
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Charlotte and Guy Scott married in 1994 at a wedding held at the Lusaka Civic Centre with the reception at their home in State Lodge.
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in the United Kingdom. Charlotte Scott left the position of First Lady on 26 January 2015 and was succeeded by
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in psychology and development studies from the University of Oxford in 1986. She then obtained a
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at the University of Reading in 1987. Scott later completed her PhD from the
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in southeast London. Her parents had met as students at
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410:(also called social cash transfers), which makes
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794:"Charlotte Scott chased from Town Center Market"
729:"UPND adopts Charlotte for Lusaka Central seat"
27:Former Interim First Lady of Zambia (born 1963)
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