The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has announced the
extension of its mobile voter registration exercise by one month.
Speaking to ZBC News in Harare this Thursday morning, ZEC
Acting Chairperson Commissioner Emmanuel Magade said the mop up exercise will
start from the 10th of January to the 8th of February with an advance campaign
exercise to alert citizens set to kick off days before the resumption of the
BVR extension.
Commissioner Magade said the extension has been
necessitated by the High Court ruling of
29 November 2017 which said former aliens should be allowed to vote and the
issuing of IDs to some citizens who had no documents at the beginning of the
exercise and have since obtained them from the Registrar-General’s mobile
registration exercise.
Some youngsters who have just attained the voting age will
also be accommodated through the mop up exercise.
Commissioner Magade said the provincial voters roll should
be ready by end of March to beginning of April after which the public will be
required to inspect it.
The final voters roll is expected by May latest to pave way
for the Presidential proclamation which dissolves parliament and announces the
election date.
According to the laws and constitution of Zimbabwe, the
election should be held 30 days prior to the expiry of the incumbents’ 5 year
presidential term.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has assured the world that the
country will hold free, fair and credible elections this year.
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