Policy think tank, the Zimbabwe Democracy Institute (ZDI) says the recently gazetted Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) final delimitation report can be understood as a Zanu PF scheme meant to maintain their two-thirds majority in Parliament. President Mnangagwa on Monday gazetted the delimitation report paving way for
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has gazetted the constituency Delimitation Report by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), setting the stage for the crucial harmonised elections set for July-August this year. Delimitation is the process of dividing the country into constituencies and wards for purposes of elections to constituency
Opposition legislators have denounced the proposed Electoral Amendment Bill that is currently before Parliament saying there was no consultation and input from election stakeholders including observer missions and pressure groups. Speaking during debating of the second reading of the Bill in Parliament yesterday, Mutare Central legislator
Former Zanu PF Mashonaland West provincial chairperson and Norton legislator Temba Mliswa has urged the ruling party to focus more on reaching out to former party loyalists and unite factions than making noise over former opposition opportunists stampeding to join the movement. Mliswa’s remarks comes in
Stakeholders have bemoaned the low representation of women in politics calling on the authorities to align laws and electoral systems to the Constitution to ensure fair representation in leadership positions. Speaking during a multi-party gender conference on women’s political participation, Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) chairperson Margaret
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has dismissed claims by rival opposition MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora that there is a high level political dialogue going on between the two parties and the ruling Zanu PF. Addressing journalists at party headquarters on Monday, Mwonzora said there was
The Douglas Mwonzora led opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) says elections under the current conditions are a potential nullity because of massive defects in the Zimbabwe Elections Commission (ZEC) delimitation report. Last Friday, ZEC presented the final delimitation report to President Emmerson Mnangagwa with the
Zanu-PF’s Manicaland women’s league leader Happiness Nyakuedzwa has been suspended for 21 days for gross misconduct after reportedly disputing elections held in the province. Nyakuedzwa is further charged with insulting Betty Kaseke, who is the ruling party’s secretary for external affairs, Betty Kaseke. In a letter addressed
The parliamentary ad-hoc committee set up to look into the 2022 Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) Preliminary Report on the Delimitation Exercise has urged the electoral mother body to abide by the provisions of Section 161 of the Constitution in coming up with electoral boundaries. Following the
Election advocacy group, the Election Resource Centre (ERC) has called on the country’s election stakeholders to ensure that past mistakes that led to a disputed 2018 plebiscite are not repeated. In a statement on what the think tank is expecting ahead of the 2023 harmonised elections,
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