‘Zanu PF preparing for early polls’

THE Zanu PF-led government is reportedly busy tying up all loose ends, including fast-tracking passage of the delimitation report, election-related legislation in Parliament and bussing its members to register on the voters roll as part of a wider plot to call an early election that will find the opposition ill-prepared, NewsDay Weekender has heard.

According to the Constitution, the country is supposed to hold general elections between July 27 and August 26, but legal think-tank Veritas has warned that there are machinations to dissolve Parliament and call an early election.

Veritas, in its latest weekly Election Watch report, said the fast-tracking of election-linked Bills raised eyebrows.

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