THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance yesterday said it had gathered
enough evidence to challenge electoral results in 20 constituencies,
while results in other constituencies were still being analysed as the
opposition desperately seeks to overturn Zanu PF and President-Elect
Emmerson Mnangagwa’s victory in the July 30 polls.
Mnangagwa received 50,8% of the total votes, just enough to
avoid a rerun while his party claimed a two-thirds parliamentary majority
votes, but Chamisa has rejected the results announced by the Zimbabwe Electoral
Commission (Zec), claiming they were manipulated.
Chamisa on Saturday met all the party’s candidates who
participated in the just-ended polls for a review of the process.
Speaking after the meeting, party chairperson Morgen
Komichi said the meeting was part of the evidence-building process to enable
them to file a court challenge against the results.
“We have successfully filed with the Electoral Court to
challenge results in 20 constituencies, and we are still compiling evidence in
some others,” Komichi said.
“President Chamisa had a meeting with all parliamentary
candidates on Saturday.
“The meeting was to learn of the candidates’ experiences in
the just-ended polls. The meeting also presented an opportunity for the
candidates to bring forward some of the irregular practices they observed as
part of our evidence building process.”
Komichi could not, however, name the affected
constituencies, saying the party would release a comprehensive list as soon as
they were done with the process.
He also could not give details of when Chamisa would file
his presidential petition.
“We have all the evidence and we will challenge many
constituencies as well, apart from the presidential polls,” Komichi said.
Chamisa last week vowed to “defend the people’s votes”,
accusing his protagonist, Mnangagwa, of staging a coup against the will of the
people.
Last week, Chamisa said he would explore all legal and
constitutional methods to overturn Mnangagwa’s electoral victory, claiming his
party had overwhelming evidence that Mnangagwa had stolen “the people’s
victory”.
Mnangagwa has, however, defended his victory, claiming he
had, indeed, according to his promise given the country a free, fair and
credible poll. He urged Chamisa to accept the will of the people and work
together to ensure a peaceful environment exists so that the country could
focus on economic revival, a call dismissed by the youthful leader.
Despite some international observer missions declaring the
poll free, fair and credible, Chamisa claimed, his own tabulation of data from
V11 forms signed at polling stations gave him a 57% victory against Mnangagwa.
Chamisa has challenged Zec to announce constituency-based results of the
presidential poll. Newsday
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