MDC-T ducks in a row while Zanu PF’s squabble

ZANU PF is, as usual, playing a smoke-and-mirrors game — they are shrilly calling for an election no later than June 29 — the last day of the life of this Parliament and of the Mugabe Presidency. In fact, there is not a snowball’s chance of that happening and Zanu PF is to blame for that. We have to see the new Constitution signed into law, then the electoral Acts harmonised with the new Constitution and then finalise the voters’ roll and nominate perhaps 20 000 candidates from 23 political parties for 2 400 seats.

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