The MDC has rejected the decision of the Constitutional Court to endorse what they call a patently sham election and to entrench an illegitimate regime that used brazen subterfuge and brutal violence to steal the people’s vote.
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ConCourt will deliver its judgment tomorrow in an application in which MDC-A leader Nelson Chamisa is challenging President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa’s win in the elections. Chamisa filed a court application on August 10,claiming he won the election with 60% of the vote.#zimbabwe
ZEC has cut President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa’s win by a marginal 0,1%,but insists the error was purely clerical.A fortnight ago,Zec declared Mnangagwa as the winner of the presidential race in which 23 candidates took part,including Nelson Chamisa of MDC Alliance.#zimbabwe
MDC Alliance presidential hopeful Nelson Chamisa faces his moment of truth today when his team of top local and regional lawyers take to the centre stage at the ConCourt, seeking to overturn President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa's win and possibly force a re-run.
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War veterans Secretary General,Victor Matemadanda said former President Mugabe's advanced age now made him an ancestor whose only suitable place was among the dead.He took a swipe at Nelson Chamisa for allegedly jumping into bed with the country's former leader.#ElectionsZW
Tensions are high in Zimbabwe as the country's political protagonists Emmerson Mnangagwa and Nelson Chamisa switch turf from the spiteful political arena to the Constitutional Court which sits this Wednesday to decide the country's inconclusive presidential election.
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Top rights defender and lawyer,Douglas Coltart says more than 40000 Zimbabweans who cast their votes in the just ended elections could be guilty of electoral misdemeanour if it was true that presidential votes cast in the disputed polls exceeded those cast in parliamentary ones
Zimbabwe’s justice minister says applications by Chamisa’s South African lawyers to appear in Constitutional Court this week arrived late and didn’t have supporting documents. He said requested them to send the information but only received documents for Advocate J Gauntlett
MDC Alliance activist Paddington Japajapa who was wanted by the police on allegations of inciting party supporters to conduct a demonstration in Harare soon after elections, was arrested in Gweru on Sunday and was taken to Harare Central Police Station for further investigations
Arizona Republican Jeff Flake returned to the Senate from his 3-week trip to Zimbabwe and Botswana. The retiring senator had gone to Zimbabwe to serve as an official observer in the country’s presidential election held in late July. #ZimElections,#ElectionsZW,#MDCAlliance,#Zanupf
Tajamuka has urged the Zimbabwean judiciary to swear in Nelson Chamisa as President of Zimbabwe with immediate effect or call for peaceful, free, fair, credible and international conducted re-run of the Presidential election #ZimElections,#ElectionsZW,#IndependPollZim,#harare
President-Elect Emmerson Mnangagwa has claimed that none of his lieutenants gave orders for the fatal shooting of 7 civilians,where soldiers opened fired into groups of protesters in Harare on August 1 to quell protests by opposition MDC Alliance activists.#ElectionsZW,#Pindula
Parties to the election petition by MDC-Alliance leader Mr Chamisa will today meet at the Constitutional Court Registry office to consolidate the record in preparation for the hearing of the challenge on Wednesday.Chamisa, claims the election was rigged.#ZimElections,#twimbos
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday ordered his political nemesis President-elect Mnangagwa to do the most gracious and revolutionary thing by conceding defeat and start negotiating his retirement package before Wednesday to avoid humiliation at ConCourt #ElectionsZW
The Zimbabwe Republic Police in a statement warned members of the public not to be hoodwinked into participating in illegal gatherings, which they say will be disguised as church prayers.
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Former Zanu-PF politician,Noah Mangondo who ran as an independent has challenged the election results of Murehwa South at the Electoral Court. ZEC declared Zanu-PF's Biggie Matiza the winner and Mangondo wants Zec to declare him the winner. #ElectionsZW,#MDCAlliance,#Zanupf
Zimbabwean authorities have charged Morgen Komichi, the National Chairperson of the MDC Alliance party with violating the country's electoral laws after he allegedly interrupted the 2018 harmonised election proceedings conducted by Zimbabwe Electoral Commission. #ElectionsZW
Chief Justice,Luke Malaba has set ground rules on how the ConCourt would deal with Chamisa's electoral petition.He ordered that losing candidates could only file their responses if they were opposed to Chamisa's application.
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