In an interview with The Herald, Zanu-PF Secretary for Legal Affairs Paul Mangwana confirmed that yesterday the party failed to file its response against MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa’s election petition at the Constitutional Court.
Zanu-PF attempted to file its response during a public holiday when the Constitutional Court was closed. Mangwana said their response was ready, but would be filed tomorrow. Said Mangwana:
We failed to file today (yesterday) because the courts are closed. We understand that they will only open on Wednesday, so we will only proceed to do so on Wednesday. The court papers have been ready since morning. We have Advocate Lewis Uriri and Advocate Thembinkosi Magwaliba leading the team, but we have a team of more than 10 legal practitioners working on the matter. That resource called lawyers is not scarce in Zanu-PF. The Secretary of Legal Affairs is a lawyer and the leader of the party is also a lawyer and we have many other lawyers.
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Its not a big issue, ZANU PF will always file the papers after the holiday, MDC ndoitiri pama1 because they should produce enough evidence about rigging provided they have got that evidence.