The elections are an unprecedented opportunity for Zimbabweans to choose who they believe can deliver economic recovery after decades of violent, predatory and authoritarian rule.
Though many observers say that conditions for elections have improved. Most obviously, there is greater political space for opposition parties to operate in predominantly rural parts of the country where they were previously barred.
Meanwhile, the Zimbabwean ruling Zanu PF party is demanding that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), which runs elections, must disqualify 15 parliamentary poll candidates of the main opposition CCC in Bulawayo, saying they filed their nomination papers after the 4pm deadline on 21 June 2023.
Zanu PF senior official Patrick Chinamasa says Zimbabwe Electoral Commission violated the law by allowing CCC candidates to file papers after the deadline and must disqualify them as they are ineligible to stand for election on 23 August.
Chinamasa further attacks the CCC, led by Nelson Chamisa, saying the party failed to meet the nomination deadline because it is “structureless, unconstitutional and has no financial structures”.
He claims ZEC, which extended the nomination deadline, acted illegally by accepting opposition candidates’ papers after the set cut-off point, hence the need to disqualify them.
Source: https://twitter.com/NewsHawksLive/status/1674687021892132867?t=G5EMEWCpSHyxxGUA3oygMQ&s=19
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