AFP/ JEKESAI NJIKIZANA
Zimbabwe’s re-elected President Emmerson Mnangagwa has stated these individuals questioning the outcomes of final week’s election, which an opposition chief dismissed as a “gigantic fraud”, take their case to court docket.
The election fee stated on Saturday that Mnangagwa, 80, had received the election with 52.6 per cent of the vote whereas the opposition Citizens’ Coalition for Change (CCC) chief Nelson Chamisa received 44 per cent.
Mnangagwa took over when longtime strongman Robert Mugabe was toppled in a 2017 navy coup. His first time period was marked by runaway inflation, forex shortages and sky-high unemployment.
Mnangagwa welcomed the election consequence, whereas Chamisa, talking on social media platform X, previously Twitter, stated: “It’s a blatant and gigantic fraud.”
It was unclear whether or not the opposition would use the courts to dispute the election outcomes, as Zimbabwe’s judges have traditionally sided with the governing get together.
Political analyst Munjodzi Mutandiri, from the Southern Africa Liaison Office, stated the opposition had extra to achieve by taking to the streets than to the courts.
“The questions around judicial independence won’t cure the legitimacy challenge (of the results) just as (the electoral commission’s) impartiality and perceived lack of independence have created” the disputed outcomes, he stated.
CCC spokesman Promise Mkwananzi stated in an announcement that the official outcomes differed from these tallied by the opposition.
“The CCC has initiated a comprehensive citizen’s review of the vote count,” he stated.
