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Znu-PF needs just 10 seats to win a two-thirds majority and be free to revise the country’s laws. According to observers, these unopposed by-elections are the first step in the government’s bid to win a two-thirds majority in Parliament.
On Saturday (yesterday) polling stations in Zimbabwe witnessed a unique feature of parliamentary by-elections in which all opposition candidates have been banned from taking part.
The southern African country held general elections in August. The ballot gave 81-year-old President Emmerson Mnangagwa a second term in office, as well as 177 of the 280 seats in parliament to his Zanu-PF party. It is a different matter that there were allegations of massive irregularities in the election, both by the opposition parties and independent observers. Two months after the election, 14 MPs from the leading opposition party, the Citizens’ Coalition for Change (CCC), were dismissed in a bizarre ploy.
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Znu-PF needs just 10 seats to win a two-thirds majority and be free to revise the country’s laws. According to observers, these unopposed by-elections are the first step in the government’s bid to win a two-thirds majority in Parliament. The aim is to amend the Constitution, which would allow Mnangagwa to extend his reign by abolishing the two-term presidential limit.
