Donald Tiriwepi 

Machiavelli

ZANU PF musangano unoyera uchatonga ugotonga vonoukura vachingo ukura vachingo ukura ZANU PF ichingotonga.

Give me one African country tht is a full democracy 

Machiavelli 

Organisationally, the country is far from being ready for elections. ZEC is in shambles- the voters roll is not ready, it's not transparent and is not even available to all stakeholders. Why? Only ZANU and ZEC know. 

With less than 6 months to the expiry of the current Parliament,  no date has been set.  Everything is through innuendo and pre supposition.

The voters roll is not available,  and  is subject to a lot of criticism and failure by ZEC to publish it leads to intrigue. 

Legislation conducive for free and fair elections doesn't exist.  CCC has since prior to 2018 been calling for electoral reform, and shas lent a deaf ear to th8se entreaties. The cosmetic framework passed by Parliament only serves to disenfranchise certain people instead of creating a conducive environment for fair plebiscite. 

Financially the country is I. Dire straits and hasn't allocated enough resources for elections.  I am not sure whether those that participated in the census were eventually paid.  Those involved in the run up to delimitation are still to be paid.

The largest opposition party,  the CCC is financially incapacitated. Not only is it thwarted from raising funds abroad (the only source that is awash with donor funding), but it is prohibited from state funding due to judicial capture.  The Luke Malaba Supreme Court has denied it of its rightful share of state funding 

The political climate is polarised. Only ZANU has a free reign to campaign. Maybe its opposition surrogate- MDC-T- is given a modicum of space,  I suppose only because it is a ZANU hunting dog.
I could go on ad infinitum,  but the long and short of it is that ZANU is making it difficult for anyone else to challenge its hold on power irrespective of its mammoth failures economically and everything else. 

Quelle ville?


                 

So you believe your own lies 😂. 
Zanupf will never win a free and fair election. 

Zanu pf guardian of the faith 

You are developing cold feet because the development thrust of President ED is there for all to see and your opposition is in disarray because the well oiled Zanu pf commissariat has unveiled people centred initiates that have seen the support base of the opposition dwindle as they continue to ditch the sinking opposition ship
let's play it in the ballot box no more smokescreens this time we will trounce you so much that most of you will resign from active opposition politics forever

@Goebbels,  I cannot speak for the opposition. But as Zimbabweans, we (including the opposition) are caught in a catch 22 situation. ZANU obviously is aware that it is in a losing position. 

The best case scenario for them is making elections untenable. inviting the outside world to prop either a continuation of the status quo (hoping that the economy may turn around) or 2009 GNU scenario to help ZANU regroup. CCC has learnt from Morgan's mistake of accepting a GNU so that is a non starter. 

While the environment is unacceptable for genuine free and fair election,  if CCC decides against participating,  they ate creating a platter for ZANU which is what ZANU is actually angling for.  Participating in a skewed election will definitely dilute the envisaged CCC victory. 

The only saving grace would be serious observation/monitoring of the election by SADC,  AU, United Nations. But for obvious reasons that is unacceptable to ZANU because the economy is forcing a vote against the incumbent. 

In Latin it is "Quo vadis?" (Where to from here?)

Jeremiah Mafirakureva

@ Machiavelli
I concur with your viewpoint dear Patriot .
Having laid out all the pros & cons , is it , then, feasible, for the opposition to participate in the forthcoming elections?
what's their game plan? 

WILLIAM SONBOY CHINEMBIRI

If the the truth be told the political atmosphere is not conducive to holding fair, free and credible elections.

Opposition political parties, especially CCC political party is not allowed to campaign and organise rallies. 

In some instances activists are murdered like Mboweni Ncube and Moreblessing Ali. Opposition cadres like Job Sikhala are persecuted by jailing him without trial.

There is no rule of law, there is poor Human Rights record and institutional corruption is rampant.

ZEC in itself is not organised. Some commissioners declined to sign the Delimitation report. The voters roll is in shambles.

[ IN CONCLUSION THE COUNTRY IS NOT READY FOR THE HARMONISED ELECTIONS ].

[ VOTERS REJECT ZANU PF AND VOTE FOR CCC POLITICAL PARTY FOR REAL CHANGE ].

Yours sincerely
William Sonboy CHINEMBIRI
[THE BUSH LAWYER4CCC].

Local human rights watchdog, Crisis Coalition in Zimbabwe (CiCZ) says Zimbabwe is not ready to hold free, fair and credible elections given the escalating incidents of politically-motivated violence, among other factors.
Cicz national director Blessing Vava said current events do not point to a country ready for fair elections.
He told a South Africa-based radio station recently:
<blockquote>
If you look at the prevailing conditions, they do not point out a country ready for free, fair and credible elections. The violence we have witnessed during the by-elections in areas such as Insiza and the continuous arrest of opposition activists such as Job Sikhala currently languishing in remand prison without trial casts doubt on the credibility of the upcoming elections.
What we are seeing now is a playing field tilted towards the ruling party with the opposition party not being allowed to organise rallies.
</blockquote>
Vava also indicated that the current controversy around the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) delimitation report was another pointer to the nation’s unpreparedness.
Political violence has been escalating since late 2021 amid concerns that this year’s elections might be bloody as the ruling ZANU PF is “willing to do whatever it takes to retain power.”
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