"THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is next month set to initiate a pilot project of displaying the voters' roll outside a polling station during three by-elections to be held in Matabeleland North province," reported Bulawayo 24.
ZEC is going to display the voters’ roll which is failed to produce for verification, which denied 3 million Zimbabwean in the diaspora a vote, etc., etc. To what end and purpose, one has to ask, especially now after the elections were rigged and ZEC played a major role in the rigging?
“The electoral commission lacked full independence and appeared to not always act in an impartial manner,” stated the EU Mission final report.
“The final results as announced by the Electoral Commission contained numerous errors and lacked adequate traceability, transparency and verifiability. Finally, the restrictions on political freedoms, the excessive use of force by security forces and abuses of human rights in the post-election period undermined the corresponding positive aspects during the pre-election campaign. As such, many aspects of the 2018 elections in Zimbabwe failed to meet international standards.”
Last year’s elections were not free, fair and credible as the process was full of flaws and illegalities it is nonsense to suggest such a process can ever produce a legal and legitimate result. Utter nonsense!
Zimbabwe does not have a legitimate government with the people’s democratic mandate to govern. The Zanu PF government is illegitimate and hence the reason the country is a pariah state.
As long as Zimbabwe remain a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and vote rigging thugs the country will never achieve any meaningful economic recovery. No investor wants to do business with thugs!
Zanu PF has rigged elections in the, insisted the elections were free and fair, declared itself the winner and legitimate government and presented the nation and the world at large with a fait accompli. Rigging the elections, ipso facto confirming the country it’s pariah state status, was the easy bit. With investors shying away, the regime has to “rig” economic recovery too – clearly a bridge too far!
Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown has pushed unemployment to nauseating heights of 90%, millions now live in abject poverty and basic services such health care have all but collapsed. The country has a chronic shortage of fuel, food, medicine, etc.
In a futile attempt to “rig” economic recovery the regime has prematurely abolished the use of the multi-foreign currencies as legal tender unleashed the scourge of hyperinflation. Inflation was 97% when the regime imposed the Z$ as the only legal tender a month ago; it has since surged to 175%. Last time inflation soared to 500 billion % and the economy was left in ruins; we are clearly set for a repeat!
As much as Zanu PF would like to pretend otherwise, Zimbabwe is not a democracy and the country is in serious economic trouble and the situation is getting worse, not better!
As stated above, as long as the country remains a pariah state; the economic situation will only get worse. The only way out is for Zanu PF to step down so the nation can appoint an interim administration tasked to implement the reforms and end this curse of rigged elections and pariah state. There is no other way out!
ZEC was required by law to produce verified voters' roll, to display on each polling station the V11 forms, summary of votes cast for each candidate, etc., etc. and it failed to do any of these things. Now ZEC wants to display the unverified voters' roll at each polling station as if that will make all the difference to the July 2018 rigged elections!
What good is displaying an unverified voters' roll from which 3 million in the diaspora are denied the vote, etc.? This is typical of this regime, it gives you what you do not want and deny you what is rightfully yours!
ReplyDeleteThe top priority right now is to get Zanu PF to step down, the regime is illegitimate, it rigged the last year's elections!
How is it possible that anyone would agree to go into an election in which only one contestant knows who is on the voters' roll and 3 million voters in the diaspora are denied the vote compared to the 5 million votes cast?
ReplyDeleteZEC will do foolish things like making public the corrupted voters' roll on voting day but will never allow it to be verified. The regime is renowned for doing what it wants to distract everyone but stubborning refuse to do what is required of it by law.
It is shocking that whilst our opposition politicians do not deny that there were the mountain of flaws, irregularities and downright illegalities, they still endorse the elections as free, fair and credible or be it with the caveat that they should be given a share of the spoils of the rigged elections, in MDC's case.
We are stuck with the Zanu PF dictatorship that is doing as it damn well pleases and an opposition that is going along with the regime as long as they get the scraps the regimes throws at them as bait.
@ Dr Mumbi
ReplyDeleteTrue the truth will set us free but the corollary is equally true that ignorance will enslave us. This platform has been regurgitating the same old arguments encouraging Africans to blame everyone us for our own problems. She is just encouraging us to bury our heads in the sand when what we need is hold the mirror so we can see who is really to blame for us suffering - us.
We need to start thinking in a rational way and stop this idiotic mentality of deny we have doing fine and the fault lies with everyone else, especially the West!