HARARE:
ZANU PF, the ruling political party for Zimbabwe formerly known as Southern Rhodesia have postponed their party primaries slated for Saturday over overwhelming numbers of candidates vying for different positions
Party’s political commissar Mike Bimha on Friday said this party could not meet the deadline for final selection due to overwhelming candidates applications.
According to Bimha, the process of collecting cell registers have been completed and all the provinces have submitted and they are now being sorted for use during elections.
“In some areas we had 10 candidates for one position and therefore you have to do a thorough work. We believe everything should be ready by Sunday thereafter on Monday Politburo will meet to consider all the submissions that have been made.” he said
The elections are now scheduled to take place at a date which the party will communicate on Monday after the party piltubro meeting.
Last year, ZANUPF endorsed incumbent president Emmerson Mnangagwa to contest for presidency as party’s sole candidature.
Zimbabwe is expected to hold her general election in July or August this year
The main political parties for the 2023 elections are the Zanu-PF, which has been in power since independence in 1980, and the opposition Citizens Coalition For Change (CCC), formed early this year and led by the veteran politician Nelson Chamisa.
Since the overthrow and demise of the former president, Gabriel Robert Mugabe, the country held first election on July 31, 2018.
In the 2018 presidential election, President Emmerson Mnangagwa won 50.8% of the votes against Nelson Chamisa, of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) alliance, who genred only 44.3%.
