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A Zimbabwean civic electoral support organization, the Zimbabwe Electoral Support Network (ZESN), says that Zanu-PF has used state resources for electoral purposes in view of the harmonized elections of the United States. ;yesterday.
Incidents involving Zanu-PF officials using state resources for campaign purposes. The most common types of abuse were the distribution of food or agricultural inputs, the use of government vehicles and equipment to campaign, and government officials said they were not allowed to use the site. expressing during campaign events, "said the ZESN in its preliminary report released today. more than 6,500 observers were deployed in every constituency, constituency, district and province of the country as part of its efforts to observe the 2018 elections.
The civic organization also found that the Zanu-PF benefited immensely from biased media coverage.
"The media did not achieve fair, equitable and balanced coverage of political parties, as they largely favored established political parties.The nature of coverage has largely disadvantaged less established political parties that do not have a strong voice. have failed to attract media attention and have failed to take up the offer of advertising space. Fifty-three percent of the coverage was on Zanu-PF, 76 % in state-controlled printing and 48% on ZBC, "said the ZESN,
Although the media bias was noted, there was no observable attempt at it. Ensure the media adhere to the provisions of the electoral law despite the existence of a media monitoring committee.
ZESN stated that the preliminary statement is based on reports from a statistical sample of 750 polling stations and provides truly representative information.
– African News Agency (ANA)
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