By Staff Reporter
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has hinted that this year’s harmonized elections might be held in July and expressed optimism that the ruling Zanu PF party will prevail.
Speaking at the Zimbabwe-Belarus instruments of cooperation ceremony signing ceremony held at State House yesterday said Zanu PF will continue winning.
“Zimbabwe will soon hold elections, sometimes in July possibly.Let me assure that since independence, Zimbabwe has never omitted to hold elections every five years.
We have elections and ruling party Zanu PF has been winning all those elections and we will continue winning. Last time, 59 parties contested and we had 23 presidential contestants. This is beautiful. The more the people who want to be president, the merrier it is.I don’t know who wants to contest this but the contest is open to everyone. Zanu PF is confident that we will win,” Mnangagwa said
Recently, Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba announced that elections were likely to be between 26 July and 24 August.
