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'Let UN run Zimbabwe elections'
22 Mar 2018 at 03:59hrs | Views
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has called on the government to disband the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) and allow the United Nations to supervise general elections due in July this year.
ZCTU secretary general Japhet Moto told NewZimbabwe.com that the trip to Russia by the ZEC chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba in the company of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's special advisor Chris Mutsvangwa had seriously compromised the electoral agency.
"This (trip) vindicates all those who have always said that ZEC is not independent.," said Moyo.
Moyo said the sense of tranquility prevailing in the country was never a guarantee for credible election outcomes, especially given that the head of ZEC was travelling to a foreign land with a member of a contesting party under the guise of monitoring elections there.
Opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) spokesperson Jacob Mafume said Justice Chigumba was "arrogant and not serious about holding credible, free and fair elections in the country".
ZCTU secretary general Japhet Moto told NewZimbabwe.com that the trip to Russia by the ZEC chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba in the company of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's special advisor Chris Mutsvangwa had seriously compromised the electoral agency.
"This (trip) vindicates all those who have always said that ZEC is not independent.," said Moyo.
Moyo said the sense of tranquility prevailing in the country was never a guarantee for credible election outcomes, especially given that the head of ZEC was travelling to a foreign land with a member of a contesting party under the guise of monitoring elections there.
Opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) spokesperson Jacob Mafume said Justice Chigumba was "arrogant and not serious about holding credible, free and fair elections in the country".
Source - newzimbabwe
