Snr Politburo Members To Supervise ZANU-PF DCC Polls
The ruling ZANU PF has told its structures that due to financial constraints, senior politburo members will be supervising the District Coordinating Committees (DCC) elections instead of poll observers as initially stated.
The elections were scheduled to run between December 5 and 6 in eight provinces.
This new position was announced in a letter addressed to provincial chairpersons from the party director for the commissariat, Davison Gomo, dated November 28. Reads the letter in part:
Due to logistical and financial constraints, the original plan where all polling officers were meant to come from a supervising province is no longer sustainable.
The supervising team will be made up of senior leaders from the politburo, one commissariat commissioner, provincial chairpersons and a team from his or her province, from whom the presiding officer will be appointed.
HOT DEALS:
itel A70 - (128GB, 3GB RAM) $89,
itel A70 - (256GB, 4GB RAM) $99
itel P40 (128GB, 4GB), (6000mAh) $99
itel P40 (64GB, 4G), (6000mAh) $93
Cash on Delivery in Harare & Bulawayo. Tinotumira kwamuri inosvika.WhatsApp: 0783 450 793
Consequently, the polling officers, at ward centre level will be selected from senior members of the party.
Gomo also asked the provincial chairpersons to “facilitate the provision of district executive registers that were used in the 2017/18 polls for the general election of 2018”. In a different letter also dated 28 November, Gomo said:
The leadership determined that the forthcoming DCC elections will be conducted on the basis of the registers referred to above and therefore, there is urgent need to make these available to us at the earliest convenience possible.
The party goes to the polls amid reports of factionalism and tussling to control the districts.
Meanwhile, there are concerns in some quarters over the government’s “double standards” after Chiwenga who doubles as the minister of Health and Child Care suspended by-elections indefinitely citing the prevalence of the coronavirus.
More: NewsDay
