2023-06-23 13:26:08
The final lists of candidates selected for the legislative and local elections will be published by June 30.
Eleven candidates have been accepted to contest Zimbabwe’s presidential election scheduled for August 23, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) announced on Thursday.
The ZEC revealed that 21 candidates had submitted their nomination papers on Wednesday, but only 11 were accepted, including current President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his main rival Nelson Chamisa of the opposition Citizens’ Coalition for Change.
The ten unsuccessful applicants were disqualified either for failing to pay the $20,000 application fee or for not obtaining sufficient
support from registered voters.
According to Zimbabwean electoral law, each presidential candidate must secure ten nominations in each of the country’s ten provinces.
Savior Kasukuwere, a former minister, will also take part as an independent, alongside Douglas Mwonzora, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai (MDC-T), Lovemore Madhuku, National Constitutional Assembly, and of Gwinyai Muzorewa of the United African National Congress.
Muzorewa is the younger brother of the Prime Minister of the short-lived Zimbabwe-Rhodesia which existed from June 1, 1979 to April 18, 1980 as part of an “internal settlement” between the white-led government in what was then Rhodesia and moderate African nationalist parties that had not participated in the war of liberation. Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, however, was not recognized internationally.
Leaders of shadowy parties such as the Democratic Opposition Party, the Free Zimbabwe Congress, the National People’s Congress, the Zimbabwe Coalition for Peace and Development and the Zimbabwe Prosperity Partnership will also be in the starting blocks. blocks.
According to Rodney Kiwa, vice-president of the ZEC, the final lists of candidates selected for the Legislative and local elections will be published by June 30.
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