According to the Netherlands-based pressure group, Zimbabwe Watch, the delegation includes Constitutional Parliamentary Committee national coordinator, Gift Marunda, Zimbabwe Electoral Commission official, Dominic Chidakuza, and Brian Penduka who is a programmes manager at the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum.
The experts meeting, jointly organised by Zimbabwe Watch and the European Partnership for Democracy, is scheduled for September 15, the third anniversary of the signing of the GPA by President Robert Mugabe and former opposition leaders Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara.
It will look at the status of constitutional reforms, election preparations, and the role of the Southern African Development Community. Marunda is expected to provide an update on the troubled process of drafting Zimbabwe’s new constitution.
Mugabe’s Zanu (PF) party is against any new constitution that would clip the long-serving leader’s powers and has deliberately sought to stall the process since it began in 2009.
ZEC’s preparedness to organise Zimbabwe’s next elections has been a subject of intense debate amid allegations that the country’s voters’ roll is in shambles.
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