{"id":13061,"date":"2019-09-01T14:41:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T14:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=13061"},"modified":"2019-09-01T14:41:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T14:41:58","slug":"zanu-pf-in-vote-buying-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zanu-pf-in-vote-buying-storm","title":{"rendered":"Zanu PF in vote buying storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ZANU PF has been accused of vote buying ahead of next weekend\u2019s Glenview South Constituency by-election.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zesn.org.zw\/\">Zimbabwe Election Support Network<\/a> (ZESN) Friday said the timing of the drilling of 15 boreholes by the District Development Fund (DDF) in Glenview South few weeks before voting was an attempt to gain votes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZESN notes with concern the timing of the drilling of 15 boreholes by the District Development Fund (DDF) in Glenview which <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ZANU%E2%80%93PF\">ZANU PF<\/a> seems to have taken advantage of in its campaigns ahead of a by-election scheduled to be held on 7 September 2019 in the Constituency,\u201d reads the statement.<\/p>\n<p>ZESN observers deployed ahead of the polls reported that Zanu PF representatives were using the drilling of boreholes as a campaign tool.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZESN observers have reported on the official opening of some of the boreholes by Zanu-PF during its on-going campaigns in the Constituency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have also observed DDF trucks carrying borehole rigs moving in convoys with vehicles carrying Zanu-PF supporters in their full party regalia heading for the borehole drilling sites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis can be viewed as a form of vote buying or attempts to influence voting preferences,\u201d reads the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Vote buying, according to the Electoral Knowledge Network, includes \u201cpromising, offering or giving money, goods, services and\/or other inducements to prospective voters after an election has been announced.<\/p>\n<p>The act is also in contravention of, among others, Section 4.1.4 of the SADC Principles and Guidelines Governing Democratic Elections which stipulates that \u201cMember States shall take all necessary measures and precautions to prevent corruption, bribery, favouritism, political violence, intolerance and intimidation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZANU PF has been accused of vote buying ahead of next weekend\u2019s Glenview South Constituency by-election. In a statement, the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) Friday said the timing of the drilling of 15 boreholes by the District Development Fund (DDF) in Glenview South few weeks before voting was an attempt to gain votes. \u201cZESN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":1319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[38,118,120,785],"class_list":{"0":"post-13061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-parties","9":"tag-zanu-pf","10":"tag-election","11":"tag-parties","12":"tag-zesn"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Zanu PF in vote buying storm - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zanu-pf-in-vote-buying-storm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zanu PF in vote buying storm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ZANU PF has been accused of vote buying ahead of next weekend\u2019s Glenview South Constituency by-election. 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