Free and fair elections were one of Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa's central promises when he took power six months ago. But will he deliver? Voters in the capital Harare are skeptical.
With general elections provisionally set for July, there are huge expectations abroad but widespread skepticism in Zimbabwe that they will be free and fair as promised by 75-year-old President Mnangagwa. The new head of state, who took over after a coup put an end to the 37-year rule of his predecessor Robert Mugabe, is seen as too much part of the system he is supposed to reform. "Any rational person would at best give the administration and Mnangagwa the benefit of the doubt," Eldred Masunungure, a political scientist at the University of Zimbabwe, told DW.
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