Uchena said he would deliver judgement on Wednesday after hearing the
response from ZEC, which argued that it was still doing the process of
“meticulously”
verifying and counting the votes.
ZEC has not released the results of presidential elections, ten days after
the voting, amidst chaos and controversy underlined this week by the Zanu
(PF) regime’s allegations that ZEC officials deliberately reduced President
Robert Mugabe’s votes in order to help MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai to win.
Meanwhile, MDC secretary general Tendai Biti told a media conference in
Harare Tuesday afternoon that the recent developments are part of a plan by
Mugabe to “provoke us so that we resort to means that will give them a
pretext to crackdown and declare a state of emergency for Mugabe to rule
with decree”. He revealed that his party had more than enough evidence
showing that the regime had done everything to ensure that its people were
involved in the running and management of elections at ZEC.
The evidence Biti revealed included a dossier compiled by the CIO containing
names of thousands of teachers and other civil servants that were identified
after a vetting process as being supporters, members or sympathisers of the
MDC and were therefore not involved as election or polling officers. These
include teacher, and secretary general of the Progressive Teachers Union,
Raymond Majongwe.
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