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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>ZANU PF District Coordinating Committee (DCC) elections were hampered by poor logistics, with delays in the commencement of the polls encountered at several polling stations across the country.<\/p>\n

The elections were pencilled for Saturday and were supposed to end at 8 pm but the party has since revised the closing time to 12pm this Sunday.<\/p>\n

ZANU PF national political commissar Victor Matemadanda and party acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa blamed incessant rains and flooded rivers for failure to conduct the internal polls on time. Said Matemadanda:<\/p>\n

Voting is still going on because a lot of districts have not voted yet due to the heavy rains that have been pounding most parts of the country.<\/p>\n

So there is not much we can say at the moment, but for those that have not finished, we have given them until noon tomorrow (Sunday) so that they can finish.<\/p>\n

Chinamasa said impassable rivers due to flooding in areas such as Gokwe necessitated the extension of voting to Sunday. He said:<\/p>\n

We had logistical challenges which will likely see our elections spilling into the next day.<\/p>\n

We had areas like Gokwe where some polling agents failed to reach their polling stations due to flooded rivers.<\/p>\n

Chinamasa said the election results will be announced on Monday at the national elections command centre at the ZANU PF national headquarters in Harare.<\/p>\n

ZANU PF had a total of 1 248 polling stations in the eight provinces, excluding Harare and Bulawayo metropolitan provinces which have already concluded their elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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