Zimbabwe: Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition Predicts Violent Elections

19 February 2018

Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) has predicted violent elections this year reminiscent of the June 2008 after Zanu PF political commissar Engelbert Rugeje threatened in a recent statement that the country will slide to the mayhem of ten years ago if people do not vote for the ruling party.

In a recent statement, CiZC said the credibility of the 2018 elections was largely dependent on electoral reforms including alignment of the Electoral Act to the Constitution, a demilitarized and independent ZEC, free access to media for election stakeholders, respect for fundamental political freedoms, tolerance of diverging views and an electoral code of conduct.

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