Prior to GLAA’s enactment and passage in parliament, the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) had made submissions specific to the portions relating to the amendment of the Electoral Act. It is those amendments through GLAA that now form part of Zimbabwean law that are subject of this analysis. The analysis focusses on the extent to which the latest amendments address the concerns around the electoral law, and in particular the extent to which these amendments give effect to the letter and spirit of the Constitution.
Read full report: ZESN Analysis of the GLAA (2016)
Zimbabwe has spent nearly $100 million, five years of parliamentary time and God knows what else beside to produce the new 2013 constitution only the it to be a weak and feeble one because MDC allowed Mugabe “to dictate†the new constitution as MP Paul Mangwana, the Zanu PF representative on the parliamentary committee tasked to write the new document. The new constitution failed to deliver is single most important set objective – free, fair and credible elections.
Instead of admitting that the new constitution was too weak and feeble to ever deliver free and fair elections MDC has found comfort in asking for the existing laws to be aligned to the new constitution. Now even the usually wishy-washy and indecisive ZESN is admitting the whole realign exercise is a waste of time.