{"id":49334,"date":"2021-11-03T21:40:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T19:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=49334"},"modified":"2021-11-03T21:18:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T19:18:05","slug":"zesn-concerned-over-discord-between-zec-health-ministry-on-holding-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zesn-concerned-over-discord-between-zec-health-ministry-on-holding-elections","title":{"rendered":"ZESN Concerned Over Discord Between ZEC, Health Ministry On Holding Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZSN) an independent election watchdog has said the discord between the Health ministry and Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) over pending by-elections is worrisome.<\/p>\n<p>ZEC chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba told diplomats two weeks ago that the electoral body was ready to conduct by-elections, and was waiting for Vice-President and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga to lift his statutory instrument suspending the polls.<\/p>\n<p>Chiwenga\u2019s deputy John Mangwiro, however, last week said the ministry had nothing to do with elections. In a statement on Tuesday, ZESN said:<\/p>\n<p>Worryingly, this discord is disturbing and a sure sign of policy inconsistency and confusion on who authorises or suspends the holding of by-elections. In turn, this affects the credibility of elections and is contrary to promoting democracy and relevant human rights.<\/p>\n<p>The continued suspension of by-elections is non-compliant to regional and international instruments that govern the conduct of democratic elections that Zimbabwe is a signatory to.<\/p>\n<p>There are 28 vacancies in Parliament and 105 in local government following the recall of MDC Alliance legislators and councillors by Douglas Mwonzora\u2019s MDC-T.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Chiwenga suspended by-elections indefinitely citing the prevalence of the coronavirus. They remain suspended.<\/p>\n<p>ZESN says the continued suspension of by-elections is not justified when large public gatherings are being allowed, citing a church gathering of the African Apostolic Church on October 23 in Harare South which attracted over 16 000 congregants.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Mnangagwa addressed of thousands ZANU PF supporters in Mwenezi, Masvingo province, on the anti-sanctions day as the number of oversubscribed political party gatherings continue to surge.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbouring South Africa, which has the highest COVID-19 deaths in Africa, held municipal elections on Monday. A number of countries have also held elections under the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>More: NewsDay<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZSN) an independent election watchdog has said the discord between the Health ministry and Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) over pending by-elections is worrisome. ZEC chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba told diplomats two weeks ago that the electoral body was ready to conduct by-elections, and was waiting for Vice-President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":49333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,35,15],"tags":[1493,2189,1575,2619,351,785,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-49334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-economy","9":"category-homepage-english","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-constantino-chiwenga","14":"tag-john-mangwiro","15":"tag-zec","16":"tag-zesn","17":"tag-zimbabwe"},"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>ZESN Concerned Over Discord Between ZEC, Health Ministry On Holding Elections - 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