MDC’s blundering incompetence
is insufferable. One senior MDC is condemning the special vote and the other is
giving it his thumbs up!
“The law stipulates that
the special vote shall take place for two days and those days shall not be less
than 16 days from the actual date of polling. It was allowed to take place on
the third day and it means that the process breached the law,” said Tendai
Biti.
“If the law is breached
it means the whole special vote is a nullity and we are going to contest if ZEC
decides otherwise.”
Well the Constitution
Court has thrown out MDC’s challenge to have the special vote declared null and
void. The Judge refused to give his reasons contended these would be given at a
latter day. No doubt, the reasons will be given when Mugabe has won and sworn
in and challenging those reasons will be purely academic!
Meanwhile ZEC started verifying
and tallying ballot papers from the special vote on Friday in the presence of
representatives from Zanu PF, the MDC-T and other political parties.
Speaking at the opening
of the ballots, MDC-T representative and deputy justice minister Obert Gutu,
said: “The process has gone well. There has not been any serious logistical
challenge. I think it’s almost fool-proof.”
Well if it is indeed “FOOL-PROOF”
then what is all the farce about? It is clear Tendai Biti and Obert Gutu are
speaking out of terms; the right hand does not know what the left is doing.
The fiasco of the
special vote exposed one key ZEC weakness; that it does not have the
organisation ability to manage these elections. ZEC had to 90 000 ballots to
delivery to 209 Polling Stations so voting could take place in two days and yet
failed to get that job done properly. Many Polling stations did not get the
ballot papers, voters’ rolls, etc. until a day later; some got the wrong ballot
papers for the parliamentary candidates; wrong voters’ roll and there are
reports of some voting taking place with no voters roll; etc.
No one at ZEC could say how
many special ballots were printed, explain what happened to the ballot papers
they had send out initially but had clearly failed to arrive, etc.
How is ZEC going to
manage sending out 6 000 000 ballots to near 9 000 Polling Stations so that
voting can take place in one day?
There is going to be
total chaos on July 31 there is no doubt about that. And in all this chaos and
confusion the opportunity to rig the elections, for those with the organizational
finesse and intention, is limitless!
We all know Mugabe and
Zanu PF have both the organizational finesse and intend to rig these elections.
Tendai Biti was right to say many people working for ZEC are in fact taking
their orders from the Joint Operation Command, the shadowy Zanu PF Junta that
has ruled Zimbabwe for decades.
This July 31 election is
not going to be free, fair and credible because hundreds of thousands, if not
millions will be denied their vote because their name is not on the voters’
roll, it is on the roll but appear in another constituency, etc., etc. In the
confusion there are too many opportunities to “manufacture” vote, to destroy
valid votes, etc., etc.
Obert Gutu was one of
those MDC leaders who praised the Copac Constitution to the high heavens right
up to the referendum day, confident that it would delivery free and fair elections.
That was all nonsense of course because it was self-evident the new constitution
was too weak and feeble to end the Zanu PF dictatorship. Gutu and a few others
were doing what they do best – talking nonsense. Now he is at it again!
Only a certified idiot can
call this year’s chaotic Zimbabwe electoral process “fool-proof”!
5 comments:
@ Mike
SADC should have made sure MDC implemented the reforms instead they allowed Tsvangirai to waste time globe-trotting and chasing women of ill repute. How SADC and the nation is going to get out of this mess is going to be a real challenge!
What a mess!
Two weeks before the elections and Zimbabwe is still to issue the definitive voters’ roll. This is of course another of the many subtle ways Zanu PF is mudding the waters so they can rig the election without anyone being able to head or tail of what has been going on.
MDC-T’s Tendai Biti claimed that Registrar-General Tobaiwa Mudede has created three to four dif-ferent voters roll databases, for the purposes of rigging the upcoming elections.
"If things didn't go right in the special vote, those things need to be looked into by the time of elections on 31 July," Zulu told AFP.
But the African Union after its Peace and Security Council meeting on Friday said it was possible to have fair elections.
"According to our observers on the ground we believe that it is possible to have free and fair elections in Zimbabwe," said Aisha Abdullahi, AU commissioner for political affairs on Zimbabwe.
Here we go again, SADC saying one thing and the AU saying another and the greatest and only beneficiary of this confusion is Mugabe himself! The question everyone on AU commissioner should answer is do they really expect Mugabe to deliver free and fair elections without even one democratic reform implemented?
What the AU is doing here is experimenting with a whole nation’s hopes and dreams. Zimbabweans have been denied free and fair elections for 33 years and now they are once again being denied this basic right; the AU is helping Mugabe to do so by pretending not to see and hear what the latter is doing.
@ Yepec
You clearly believe MDC has the answers to all Zimbabwe's problems, it is the party of strategies. The sad really is none of those answers and strategies seem to work.
My answer to Zimbabwe's mess is that people should stop believing idiots like Tsvangirai who led the nation from one blunder into another. You, Yepec, can continue to believe in Tsvangirai; you are a half-shilling!
@ Zimb United
Well let us take the argument to the next level; why should the ordinary Zimbabweans be denied their right to free and fair elections because of ZIDERA?
Zimbabweans have been denied their basic rights and freedoms for 33 years under one pretext or another, ZIDERA being just one of these feeble scapegoats!
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