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Hundreds gather to watch legal showdown over Zimbabwe vote

By August 22, 2018Updated:December 19, 2024No Comments2 Mins Read
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Hundreds gathered around screens outside Zimbabwe’s top court on Wednesday to watch a legal showdown between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the opposition leader challenging his July 30 election victory. Hundreds of thousands more turned on their televisions to follow live footage of the Constitutional Court considering Nelson Chamisa’s petition that the vote was flawed and should be overturned. ALSO READ: MDC files court appeal against Mnangagwa’s win Riot police blocked roads leading to the court in the capital Harare and vehicles carrying water cannon parked nearby. Chamisa, 40, says the first vote since the removal of Robert Mugabe in November was rigged by a biased electoral commission. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) and Mnangagwa say there was no foul play. The nine judges could throw the case out, declare a new winner or order a fresh election within 60 days. Wednesday’s hearing has been cast as a major test of the independence of the highest court whose verdict is final. “MOST IMPORTANT CASE” “The jurisprudential and political burden that weighs heavily on the shoulders of each of the Constitutional Court judges today is that they are about to adjudicate by far the most important case of their legal careers,” Welshman Ncube, a Chamisa ally and constitutional lawyer wrote on Twitter. Before the hearing started at around 10 a.m. (0800 GMT), Chamisa’s lawyers accused Zimbabwe’s Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi of refusing to issue temporary work permits to three South African members of their team. The judges let the three keep working in the team in court. Ziyambi declined to comment when contacted by Reuters. ALSO READ: Zimbabwe Opposition leader arrested The election had been expected to end Zimbabwe’s pariah status and launch an economic recovery, but post-vote unrest has left the country deeply divided and brought back uncomfortable reminders of its violent past. Mnangagwa has urged Zimbabwe to unite behind him but questions remain over the death of six people in an army crackdown on protests against the ruling party’s victory. Chamisa earlier this week said the high stakes court case was only one of the many routes he would take “to protect the people’s vote” and said if he lost, he would consider peaceful street protests against Mnangagwa.

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