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Parliament summons Tobaiwa Mudede
10 Jun 2013 at 04:16hrs | Views
The 30-day national mobile voter registration and inspection of the voters' roll starts today, with aliens being able to switch to Zimbabwean citizenship at nearly 2 000 centres established countrywide.
Zimbabwe Electoral Commission spokesman, Lovemore Sekeramayi said voter registration teams would be deployed today and immediately start their duties.
Meanwhile the Reistrar General (RG) Tobaiwa Mudede will today appear before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Defence and Home Affairs to speak on the voter registration exercise.
Voter registration is scheduled to begin today. Defence and Home Affairs Committee chairman Paul Madzore on Friday confirmed the development.
"We want to be able to ascertain the preparedness of the Registrar-General's Office to get people registered as voters after we encountered a lot of problems during the first exercise," said Madzore.
He said other issues to be raised during the meeting, include those to do with acquisition of identity documents, birth certificates and how the RG's Office will deal with the so-called aliens.
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has also been asked to appear before the committee on Wednesday in a joint sitting with the Parliamentary Thematic Committee on Peace and Security.
Madzore said Zec would be asked to explain the voter registration exercise, budgetary issues and election preparedness when they appear before the two committees. He said the committee had since been given the green light to tour different provinces to investigate how voter registration was being administered.
Zimbabwe Electoral Commission spokesman, Lovemore Sekeramayi said voter registration teams would be deployed today and immediately start their duties.
Meanwhile the Reistrar General (RG) Tobaiwa Mudede will today appear before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Defence and Home Affairs to speak on the voter registration exercise.
Voter registration is scheduled to begin today. Defence and Home Affairs Committee chairman Paul Madzore on Friday confirmed the development.
"We want to be able to ascertain the preparedness of the Registrar-General's Office to get people registered as voters after we encountered a lot of problems during the first exercise," said Madzore.
He said other issues to be raised during the meeting, include those to do with acquisition of identity documents, birth certificates and how the RG's Office will deal with the so-called aliens.
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has also been asked to appear before the committee on Wednesday in a joint sitting with the Parliamentary Thematic Committee on Peace and Security.
Madzore said Zec would be asked to explain the voter registration exercise, budgetary issues and election preparedness when they appear before the two committees. He said the committee had since been given the green light to tour different provinces to investigate how voter registration was being administered.
Source - newswires
