HARARE, (CAJ News) – THE Constitutional Court in Zimbabwe is presiding over an appeal arising from the contentious parliamentary elections held in 2018.
Opposition Movement for Democratic Change Alliance (MDC-A) member, Gift Konjana has filed an application against the declaration by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF’s) Dexter Nduna as the winner of the Chegutu West constituency.
Konjana argues the Electoral Court Judge Justice Mary Zimba-Dube had erred and misdirected herself on 18 October 2018 when she rejected his election petition on the grounds that it was fatally defective.
In the Electoral Court, Konjana had argued that ZEC officials had made a mistake by swapping his 121 votes in one of the wards in Chegutu West constituency with those of another candidate Simon Kache, who had gotten just one vote.