Confidence in Zec at all-time low | Breaking News

Confidence in Zec at all-time low | Breaking News

Confidence in Zec at all-time low | Breaking News

POLITICAL players and the general public have lost confidence in the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission’s (Zec) capacity to deliver free, fair and credible elections even after the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) ruling, which gave a seal of approval on its work. A Long-Term Observer Post Elections report released by the Zimbabwe Elections Support Network (Zesn) showed that confidence levels in the work of Zec continued to dip, especially after the ConCourt case which exposed short-comings on the work of the commission.”Closer to the election, there was an overall decline in confidence in the impartiality of Zec. After the election, stakeholder confidence significantly declined. This can partly be attributed to perceptions fuelled by allegations by the leaders of the main opposition, the MDC Alliance, that the commission manipulated poll results in favour of Zanu PF,” the report reads. MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, through his lawyer Thabani Mpofu, poked holes into Zec’s management of…

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