Govt ‘tampers’ with Electoral Act

GOVERNMENT on Tuesday made some “illegal” last-minute changes to the Electoral Act, effectively altering the way candidates for proportional representation in local authorities would be picked, legal think-tank Veritas Zimbabwe has revealed.

The constitutional changes were made through statutory instruments (SIs) on the eve of the sitting of the nomination courts, and were described as corrections to errors that had been carried over.

SI 114 of 2023 was issued as a correction to the Constitution of Zimbabwe No 2 Act while SI 115 of 2023 was issued by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission in terms of the Electoral Act.

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