High court postpones hearing on vote recount

Zanu-PF wants a recount in all four elections –

presidential, parliamentary, senatorial and council.  

Reports from Harare said Judge Antonia Guvava deferred the application to

Wednesday, saying she will then rule on whether the MDC’s legal team will be

permitted to file supplementary evidence or whether the case should be

dismissed. 

The MDC contends that the country’s amended electoral law Act is clear that

any aggrieved party can only contest an outcome within 48 hours of the

election.  Zanu-PF lodged their request for a parliamentary recount almost

four days after the final results were made public. Results for the

presidential race have not yet been released. 

But as far as the parliamentary poll is concerned, the MDC’s secretary for

parliamentary and legal affairs Innocent Gonese, told us that the long time

it took Zanu-PF to request a recount meant it was now illegal for any court

to deal with the issue.