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British MP Says "There Is No Sign That ZEC Will Enforce Any Form Of Free And Fair Elections" In 2023

2 years agoMon, 31 Oct 2022 09:32:48 GMT
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British MP Says "There Is No Sign That ZEC Will Enforce Any Form Of Free And Fair Elections" In 2023

British Parliamentarian, Lord Robert Antony Hayward, says there is no sign that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) will enforce free and fair elections in 2023.

Speaking in the House of Lords Friday, Hayward, who was an observer during Zimbabwe’s 2018 general elections, questioned ZEC’s capacity to provide an uncontested poll, NewZimbabwe.com reported. He said:

My Lords, reference has already been made to the elections in 2018; the report was pretty damning, particularly in relation to the events after the general election in 2018.

Can my noble friend ensure that very strong representations are made to the electoral commission, because it has been lamentable in any action.

It was before the 2018 election, and there is no sign that it will enforce any form of free and fair elections next.

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The opposition has often accused ZEC of conniving with the ruling ZANU PF to manipulate electoral processes and results in favour of the ruling party.

In 2018, then leader of the opposition MDC Alliance, Nelson Chamisa, approached the Constitutional Court claiming that ZEC had rigged the presidential election in favour of his archrival, President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

He lost the court case with the judges led by Chief Justice Luke Malaba ruling that Chamisa had failed to provide evidence to support his claim.

Meanwhile, Lord Zac Goldsmith expressed hope the UK government would exhaust all options in ensuring credible elections in the southern African nation, next year.

Goldsmith, who was responding to Hayward, noted the UK was banking on Mnangagwa’s desire to rejoin the international community of nations, particularly the Commonwealth. Goldsmith said:

My Lords, we will use whatever leverage we have to maximise the chance of free and fair elections.

We know that President Mnangagwa wants more engagement with the UK-that is clear-and in many respects we want him to have that too.

However, deeper re-engagement with the UK will require meaningful political and economic reform and respect for human rights and the rule of law in line with the President’s own stated commitments when he took office.

Since his ascension to power in 2017, Mnangagwa has been pushing a re-engagement agenda after the southern African country was isolated two decades ago over alleged human rights abuses.

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11 Comments

Gb · 2 years ago
What worries me is about how these Countries worried much about our country Boyz ngatimboti une mkadzi wako but baba vepa next door vachidavirira on every thing how do you feel
mtt · 2 years ago
api mareforms acho arikutaurwa neCCC zanu. haina kuvata
WILLIAM SONBOY CHINEMBIRI · 2 years ago
ZANU PF is wasting its time to engage in reengagement before they carry out reforms. Zimbabwe authorities were told that for re engagement to succeed they must stop corruption, stop Human Rights violations and practise the rule of law. The chorus of the British Parliamentarians is now becoming louder and louder everyday. Zimbabwe has a lot to do. ZEC must tell ZANU PF in no uncertain terms that they should stop Political violence against opposition political parties, especially CCC Political Party. The British say that ZEC seem not to be prepared. This is how most citizens feel that ZEC is too far away from being fully prepared. The State of Zimbabwe committing further Human Rights violations through courts by denying the Nyatsime 16 bail in the past 4 months. BVUMAI IMI KUTI MAKONIWA KUTONGA ]. [ TAVE KUDA SHANDUKO TIVE NE UTONGI HWEJEKERERE ]. Yours truly William Sonboy CHINEMBIRI [THE BUSH LAWYER4CCC].
Alex Dube · 2 years ago
What do these British ass...ls have to do with our elections.
patriot . · 2 years ago
Mr Mp this is Africa and the kind of democracy u. are expecting in Zim u can't get it. Your country is in a crisis too , that's why prime minister and other high ranking officials are resigning. It's better u just lift sanctions and work very closely with the gvt of the day
Ashie we AFM · 2 years ago
ndunge stop being a crybaby do the needful...zec yagara ndeye zanu so electoral reforms will be an obstacle to zanu so they will not amend any one
bdunge · 2 years ago
netwk ichidhakwa udai here yebudie paupp
Ngatihurei Tife tikunde miyedzo yepano panyika · 2 years ago
musorobhangu
Reginald Chingono · 2 years ago
**** British, Saka nyika yavo yava kutingwa NEMA India.
SlowActingPoison · 2 years ago
It seems like Zimbabweans are living in denial but are really still living in a British Colony. We are discused in British parliament like this? And we are failing to run our economy independent of Britain! Just do the needful and join Commonwealth. At least the citizens may have a life. It is not yet Uhuru down here.
ndunge · 2 years ago
up yebuddie ikuitao here ikoko
vekumaaama · 2 years ago
ehe ndozvandiri
NTOKOZO DUBE · 2 years ago
nope the app is not working now
Mdala wethu · 2 years ago
Yangu irikuita
Anonymous · 2 years ago
Kune vane ma ItelA14 kanganwai Whatsapp kkkkk

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