Zimbabwe: Chamisa, Mujuru and Khupe Join Forces to Condemn ZEC – Saying Credible Election Impossible

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) will not be able to conduct a free, fair and credible election, said opposition parties contesting this year's presidential election

. Among the signatories of the petition are the aspirant to the MDC Alliance candidate of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Nelson Chamisa, the former vice president Joice Mujuru, and the ZEC's insistence to spark fears of rigging. (People's Rainbow Coalition), Coalition of Democrats (Elton Mangoma) Alliance for the People's Agenda (Nkosana Moyo), Build Zimbabwe and MDC-T of Thokozani Khupe

Candidates argued that & # 39; s They had lost confidence in the ZEC's ability to conduct a real poll "We, the undersigned political parties and independent candidates who contest the 2018 presidential election in 2018, have lost the confidence that ZEC can conduct a poll. "After noting that the ZEC has reneged on its commitment to transparency and credibility around the role of voters and the printing, storage and storage of ballots," said the candidates.

roll versions

While the ZEC says that it has complied with the provisions of the law and made available to the candidates the parsed version of the Biometric Contentious Poll (BVR), the parties argue that there are so many versions of the list her It has become difficult to say which one will be used at the actual election on July 30th.

"The ZEC refused to invoke the electoral rolls of the BVR as required by law," opposition parties said. distributed an incredible electronic voting board with amazing manipulations and irregularities ranging from, same identity cards on different faces, same identity cards for different people, many people on addresses that do not exist no, too many people on an address, too many people who can not yet be alive, nominated candidates but not on the voters list.

"It is not clear that the ZEC has more than one database for voters – be sure of the version that will be used on the day of the vote." One version had a duly named candidate missing. The candidate has received another version in which his name has now appeared. "

Printing of ballot papers

Among the requests for auditing the Voters' Table, the candidates added:" It is possible to publish a version for "If the irregularities are detected during the elections, it would be too late because one can only proceed by way of legal action when the damage has already been done."

ZEC, the candidates also rejected the opinion of the multi-stakeholder liaison committee that suggested stopping the printing of the ballot

"Despite the fact that the multi-stakeholder liaison committee accepted that the process of Print is immediately stopped to be executed Regarding agreed transparent measures, the ZEC has clearly continued the process of printing.

"The ZEC refuses to give concrete guarantees on the process of storing and distributing the ballot that is a key component of the tra Given the above, the candidates demanded that the procedure for the registration and distribution of the ballot be the ballot printing process is stopped.

"This is the surest way to ensure that there is no more the voters roll. The printing of the ballot must immediately stop and be carried out in a transparent manner.

"The design of the newsletter can not continue in secret, is important for our election campaign and the education of voters (and) must show equity based on principles consistently applied. meaning, "said the parties.