CHANTEL TAKUDZWA ZAMBUKIRA
POLITICAL REPORTER
The traditional opponent of the ruling party, Movement for Democratic Change- Tsvangirai (MDC-T), has called for the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic-Front (ZANU-PF) to know their position regarding the Constitution.
“ZANU PF Government and or ZEC should never be allowed to blatantly override, abuse, and decorate the Country’s Constitution, never. We will never fold our hands and watch them do it without action. The country is at a precipice of a Constitutional quagmire and it is our responsibility as the alternative to stop that,” Chengetai Guta, a Public Relations officer for the party said.
Speaking through a press release on the issue of the delimitation report the party vowed to challenge it by any means necessary and make sure that it is known to everyone that this report was not true.
“We expect to be the last line of defense as far as free, fair, and democratic elections are concerned in Zimbabwe. We differ in opinion with some political parties who feel that under this circumstance, it is well to go for an election. It only shows us how grave the situation of the delimitation report is as we are drawing close to the elections. We are going to influence the masses such that they will be able to see the extent of irregularities under which they are being forced to go into elections,” Guta continued.
He gave an example of Bulawayo Metropolitan Province having several houses which were left uncounted thereby denouncing the census report to be a big mistake.
“There are more than four thousand five hundred (4500) households in the Bulawayo Metropolitan Province which are not falling into any boundary. They were left when ZEC submitted both the final and preliminary delimitation report reports. If we go by census data which, however, is not substantive and interim data, they have not given us a conclusive program,” he added.
The delimitation report was gazetted on the 20th of February 2023 after being submitted to the President on the 3rd of February 2023 by the chairperson Justice Priscila Chigumba.