The Southern African Development Community summit held in Maputo on June 15, urged the Government of Zimbabwe to approach the Constitutional Court seeking extension of the election date to a date beyond July 31.
Chinamasa moved to file the court application on June 18.
However, the two MDC formations in the Inclusive Government disapproved Chinamasa's move saying he acted unilaterally and should have consulted them first before launching the appeal.
The two hinted their intentions to launch counter appeals and Tsvangirai lodged a counter application on Monday.
Ncube filed his counter application yesterday (Tuesday).
The Constitutional Court's decision today followed an application by Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai as well as MDC President, Welshman Ncube, to have their counter applications heard together with Chinamasa's.
However, government lawyer, Fred Gijima of FG Gijima and Associates argued that he had not heard enough time to go through the counter applications by Tsvangirai and Ncube.
Chief Justice, Godfrey Chidyausiku ruled that Gijima's argument was valid although he said that it was possible that the cases can be heard jointly.
He said that since President Robert Mugabe is cited as a respondent in one of the applications, he needs to have legal presentation as well when the matter continues.
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