Opposition legislators have denounced the proposed Electoral Amendment Bill that is currently before Parliament saying there was no consultation and input from election stakeholders including observer missions and pressure groups. Speaking during debating of the second reading of the Bill in Parliament yesterday, Mutare Central legislator
Opposition Movement for Democratic Change leader Douglas Mwonzora says the late party founding president Morgan Richard Tsvangirai transformed the labour movement by dissuading it from State control. In a message to mark five years since the death of the veteran opposition leader who succumbed to colon
Stakeholders have bemoaned the low representation of women in politics calling on the authorities to align laws and electoral systems to the Constitution to ensure fair representation in leadership positions. Speaking during a multi-party gender conference on women’s political participation, Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) chairperson Margaret
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has dismissed claims by rival opposition MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora that there is a high level political dialogue going on between the two parties and the ruling Zanu PF. Addressing journalists at party headquarters on Monday, Mwonzora said there was
The Douglas Mwonzora led opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) says elections under the current conditions are a potential nullity because of massive defects in the Zimbabwe Elections Commission (ZEC) delimitation report. Last Friday, ZEC presented the final delimitation report to President Emmerson Mnangagwa with the
Opposition MDC president Douglas Mwonzora has blasted former party deputy president Engineer Elias Mudzuri describing him as a loser since the days of founding party president the late Morgan Tsvangirai. Mudzuri and six other senior party members have taken the party to court over what they say
A breakaway faction of opposition Movement of Democratic Change (MDC-T) has described the party national congress held in December last year as a non-event accusing party president Douglas Mwonzora of violating the party constitution. Mwonzora was elected uncontested alongside the deputy president’s positions and other key
Suspended opposition MDC-T senior members have hit back at party president Douglas Mwonzora accusing him of assuming leadership through an illegitimate process. MDC-T announced the suspension of seven senior leaders including former vice president Elias Mudzuri, party candidate for Harare central Norest Marara and five others. The
Democracy and policy think tank, the Zimbabwe Democracy Institute (ZDI) says the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) preliminary delimitation report has exposed Zanu PF's ruling elites' capture of the electoral system through manipulation of boundaries ahead of 2023 harmonized elections. In a political review paper titled Electoral
The parliamentary ad-hoc committee set up to look into the 2022 Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) Preliminary Report on the Delimitation Exercise has urged the electoral mother body to abide by the provisions of Section 161 of the Constitution in coming up with electoral boundaries. Following the
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