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Zapu, ZEC court challenge ruling reserved
27 Apr 2015 at 20:01hrs | Views
The Electoral Court has reserved its ruling over the court application challenge by ZAPU President, Dumiso Dabengwa in which he accuses the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) of violating the constitution.
In his Electoral Court application Dabengwa sites the ZEC, the Chief Elections Officer and the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs as respondents.
Dabengwa lays out as grounds for his challenge ZEC's failure to comply with the new constitution by not registering voters, not compiling voters rolls and registers, not keeping and maintaining voters rolls, not inspecting voters rolls and not providing copies of voters rolls to people who request them as required by the constitution.
He seeks an order compelling ZEC to commence voter registration in all wards and constituencies in the country henceforth, to compile fresh voters rolls without transferring the voters rolls and registers from the Registrar General of voters, and for the commission to provide the voters roll in print or electronic form to anyone who requests it after paying the prescribed fee.
ZEC argues that it lacks the necessary capacity owing to resource constraints for it to be able to carry out its obligations and further contends that it waits for the fundamental issue of the gaps between the Electoral Act and the new constitution to be addressed through alignment and through the process at the Constitutional Court.
The Electoral Court reserved its ruling over the challenge, saying it will deliver it in due course.
In his Electoral Court application Dabengwa sites the ZEC, the Chief Elections Officer and the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs as respondents.
Dabengwa lays out as grounds for his challenge ZEC's failure to comply with the new constitution by not registering voters, not compiling voters rolls and registers, not keeping and maintaining voters rolls, not inspecting voters rolls and not providing copies of voters rolls to people who request them as required by the constitution.
He seeks an order compelling ZEC to commence voter registration in all wards and constituencies in the country henceforth, to compile fresh voters rolls without transferring the voters rolls and registers from the Registrar General of voters, and for the commission to provide the voters roll in print or electronic form to anyone who requests it after paying the prescribed fee.
ZEC argues that it lacks the necessary capacity owing to resource constraints for it to be able to carry out its obligations and further contends that it waits for the fundamental issue of the gaps between the Electoral Act and the new constitution to be addressed through alignment and through the process at the Constitutional Court.
The Electoral Court reserved its ruling over the challenge, saying it will deliver it in due course.
Source - zbc
