HARARE- The main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has defied the state saying it will announce the results of the ongoing elections “as they come”.
The party’s secretary general Tendai Biti told journalists this afternoon tha
t it was not unlawful for political parties to announce the results of the polls.
“There is nothing wrong for anyone to announce the election results”, said Biti. “What would be wrong would be to announce incorrect figures and I would want to challenge anyone to question us if we release incorrect figures”.
Biti’s remarks come a day after the Commissioner General of the Police, Augustine Chihuri, had decreed that no party would be allowed to announce the poll outcome. Chihuri said the results were only going to be made public by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission.
Meanwhile, Biti said his party had unearthed elements of vote- rigging in the ongoing synchronized presidential and legislative polls.
Biti claimed there were a lot of assisted voters in several parts of the country while hundreds of people have since been turned away because “they are said to be alien”.
The opposition official also alleged that his political formation had received a report from independent parliamentary candidate aligned to former finance minister Simba Makoni’s project, Ibbo Mandaza, that six boxes containing postal ballots had been discovered in Mazowe.
The Zimbabwe Guardian had yet to verify these claims at the time of going to press.
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