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Chamisa rejects SADC recommendation
16 Oct 2023 at 15:20hrs | Views
Nelson Chamisa, the leader of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), has rejected a recommendation from the Southern African Development Community Electoral Observation Mission (SADCEOM) regarding the August 23 elections in Zimbabwe.
The recommendation suggested that any grievances related to the election results should be addressed through the appropriate legal channels to ensure the exhaustion of domestic legal remedies.
Chamisa argues that relying on domestic remedies is not a credible response and is inadequate for resolving the long-standing national crisis.
SADCEOM's final report was released last week, and Zimbabwe is yet to respond to it. Chamisa, who has faced criticism after 15 Members of Parliament, nine Senators, and 17 councillors were recalled, expressed on his social media account (X) that the SADC's final report on Zimbabwe's harmonized elections affirms the consensus among most Zimbabweans that the conduct of the August 23 elections blatantly violated the Constitution of Zimbabwe, electoral laws, and SADC Guidelines and Principles on Elections.
"As the Report itself notes in its Recommendations and other sections, there are still outstanding recommendations from 2018 on the lack of impartiality of the key institutions. In addition to this, the Report itself highlights a litany of very serious and brazen breaches which result in SEOM concluding that the Elections fell short of the standards highlighted above," he said.
"Given the above developments, based on the Report's own findings, domestic remedies cannot be a credible response and are therefore clearly inadequate and incapable of resolving this long standing national crisis."
According to Zanu-PF, there is no crisis in Zimbabwe, as they contend that any crisis within Chamisa's CCC is not indicative of a national crisis.
The recommendation suggested that any grievances related to the election results should be addressed through the appropriate legal channels to ensure the exhaustion of domestic legal remedies.
Chamisa argues that relying on domestic remedies is not a credible response and is inadequate for resolving the long-standing national crisis.
"As the Report itself notes in its Recommendations and other sections, there are still outstanding recommendations from 2018 on the lack of impartiality of the key institutions. In addition to this, the Report itself highlights a litany of very serious and brazen breaches which result in SEOM concluding that the Elections fell short of the standards highlighted above," he said.
"Given the above developments, based on the Report's own findings, domestic remedies cannot be a credible response and are therefore clearly inadequate and incapable of resolving this long standing national crisis."
According to Zanu-PF, there is no crisis in Zimbabwe, as they contend that any crisis within Chamisa's CCC is not indicative of a national crisis.
Source - online
