The young opposition leader is everything President Emmerson Mnangagwa is not. Chamisa alleged that the vote was rigged in favour of the incumbent and launched a legal challenge to nullify it, but Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Court struck it down, saying the opposition leader “failed to prove fraud accusations”.
Five years on, Mnangagwa is now at the end of an objectively disappointing first full term as president, and Chamisa is gearing up to face him at the ballot box once again. Election Update, Kuwadzana, Harare Province.
Opposition @CCCZimbabwe leader, Nelson Chamisa speaks to the media after voting. He says, “We are not happy with the voter’s roll, we are not happy with the issue of the Ballot paper.
Advocate Chamisa added, “There is going to be a new leader, a new President, a new government, we are winning this election.
Election Update, Kuwadzana, Harare Province.
Opposition @CCCZimbabwe leader, Nelson Chamisa speaks to the media after voting.
He says, “We are not happy with the voter’s roll, we are not happy with the issue of the Ballot paper.”
Advocate Chamisa added,… pic.twitter.com/meIKJxP8xh
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Oozing confidence and cracking jokes, incumbent President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday told local and international media that he will win the tightly-contested elections.
“I have done my duty as a citizen of the country to decide who should be president of this country. I made a decision that I knew him. Read more