It is now Zec versus the MDC-Hon Tendai Isdore Muoni Zimbabwe’s looming harmonised poll is now a fight between the country’s election management body and the MDC secretary general Hon Tendai Biti has said. He was addressing a packed Northside Hall for a public lecture on the MDC’s manifesto and the electoral environment a few days before the watershed poll. “This is what it has come to really a fight between the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) and the MDC. It is no longer Zanu PF and us. Otherwise how does one explain the chaos that plagued the special voting exercise and the fact that Zec is now approaching the Constitutional Court for relief to allow those that failed to vote to do so on July 31?” Hon Biti queried. He added, “The law is very clear that as long as someone applies and are given exemption to vote under the special voting system whether they vote or not is another matter. They cannot vote under any other system. “However the most revealing factor about Zec’s application and action is that they are agreeing with our assertion. That not all those who applied for the special vote are genuine servicemen and women and where going to be deployed. Otherwise how then are they going to vote when they are deployed away from their wards? “Zimbabweans are not fools and we are seeing right through them, what is clear though from all this is that Zimbabweans want change and want it on July 31. No amount of machinations will delay the inevitable. No amount of tinkering will stop the whirlwind,” said Hon Biti. The secretary general and Harare East legislator said Zec wa now playing truant with information that legally it should avail to stakeholders who going to take part in the elections. “The law also allows all political parties to know who is printing the ballot paper how many are being printed but Zec has refused to tell us all this. I have written four letters to Zec and none has been replied. We respect some individuals but as an institution we have lost faith in Zec,” he said. Zimbabweans will next week troop to the polls in what analysts have termed a watershed poll that will determine the trajectory this country will take from now. The MDC with its pro-poor policies like ART and JUICE has declared it is ready to govern and usher a new era in Zimbabwe. President Tsvangirai is set to establish a constitutional democracy for the first time since independence from Britain 33 years ago.
Posted on: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 12:15:51 +0000
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