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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Zimbabwe will not hold by-elections any time soon as it needs to vaccinate about 10 million people, representing 60% of the population required to reach herd immunity.<\/p>\n

As of Friday, 23 July 2021, only 1 400 905 people had received the first jab, while 671 155 people had received both doses.<\/p>\n

In October 2020, the government through Vice-President and Health and Child Care Minister Constantino Chiwenga ordered the suspension of by-elections citing COVID-19 fears.<\/p>\n

On Thursday Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Ziyambi Ziyambi said the country was sticking to the suspension of by-elections due to COVID-19.<\/p>\n

He said elections would only take place upon the achievement of the vaccination targets. Ziyambi said this while contributing to a parliamentary debate on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) report for the year 2020. He said:<\/p>\n

You do not vote when you are dead. You do not exercise your democratic rights when you are dead.<\/p>\n

I believe that all things being equal, once we have reached herd immunity, we are going to vote. So for now, we stick to the laws that are there.<\/p>\n

The by-elections were necessitated by the recall of MDC Alliance MPs by the Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC-T and deaths of some MPs across the political divide, which left about 26 seats vacant, according to ZEC.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Dzivarasekwa MP Edwin Mushoriwa (MDC Alliance) said ZEC was not moving with speed to fulfil its mandate and the delay to hold by-elections was prejudicing the electorate currently not represented in Parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe will not hold by-elections any time soon as it needs to vaccinate about 10 million people, representing 60% of the population required to reach herd immunity. As of Friday, 23 July 2021, only 1 400 905 people had received the first jab, while 671 155 people had received both doses. 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