President Emmerson Mnangagwa has called on the Constitutional Court to dismiss Nelson Chamisa’s challenge of the presidential results. Mnangagwa alleges that Chamisa’s application does not comply with the rules of the court and was only meant to delay his inauguration which had been scheduled for the 12th of August. In his response which was filed by his legal team on Wednesday, Mnangagwa says,
… The applicant has not mounted this application for the bona fide purpose of setting aside the results of the presidential election conducted on July 30, 2018. Instead, the intention was to delay my inauguration as the duly-elected President of the Republic of Zimbabwe and to make political statements in court.
This is apparent from the fact that the application does not comply with the rules of the honourable court and the Constitution. The honourable court must see through this stratagem and dismiss the application. In addition, the applicant must be censured for the grossly childish manner in which he prosecuted this application.
The applicant makes bold and serious, yet unsubstantiated allegations of electoral fraud, criminal connivance in the alleged forgery or creation of non-existent votes. The principal allegations made are of a criminal nature. The threshold of proof is that of proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
The matter is yet to be set down for hearing.
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If Chamisa has the people of Zimbabwe at heart, why advocate for sanctions why must the people suffer because he lost the elections? Those are the people he wants to rule. Leadership squabble is between him and Mnangagwa but the masses have to bear the blunt end of the stick which is not fair, politicians are not affected about all this but the poor people. We want peace and sanity in Zimbabwe not uncalled for legal battles.
This so called opposition leaders are very selfish vanongoda zvavo zvinake kana zvavashatira voti munhu wese should suffer. havana hanya nesu vanhu ava thats why we voted them out
Even if he delay President Elect Mnangagwa`s inauguration, he is still ruling at this period as stated by the constitution.
even if he drops the court case, still what will happen to you, since you anticipate so much