Election watchdog pushes for political parties Bill

ELECTION watchdog Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) has implored government to come up with a robust regulatory framework for political parties to strengthen electoral democracy.

In recent position paper, titled Pragmatics and Purposes of Political Party Regulation in Zimbabwe, Zesn said the absence of legislation regulating political parties in the country had been identified as the major problem contributing to lack of sanity in some of their operations.

In Zimbabwe, political parties financing has been the sole regulated aspect, with other aspects such as registration and deregistration remaining unregulated.

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