Source: No vote rigging in Zim, says Madhuku | The Herald May 16, 2016
National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) leader and University of Zimbabwe law lecturer Professor Lovemore Madhuku has said elections in the country have never been rigged and are held in line with the country’s laws. Addressing students at the Midlands State University during a public lecture on the importance of constitutionalism and the rule of law in Zimbabwe’s current socio-economic context on Friday, Prof Madhuku said in the 2013 general elections, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission performed its duties in accordance with the country’s laws.
He ruled out any rigging. “In our country when it comes to election rigging, no one really knows what it means to rig an election. “If you go by the law, there are very few instances when the law is not being respected, like not giving other political parties space or enough space but the law here is followed,” said Prof Madhuku.
“Maybe the law may not be good but they follow the law. For instance, people in the Diaspora are not allowed to vote and this is in accordance with the law, but in political circles some want to call it rigging but that is different because the law is not giving them the right to vote.”
He said people who are complaining about vote rigging are ignorant of the law and any aggrieved parties should push to have some laws changed. The remarks by the NCA leader fly in the face of the MDC-T claims that the 2013 elections, which were resoundingly won by Zanu-PF, were rigged.
Zanu-PF trounced the MDC-T with more than two thirds majority in Parliament and President Mugabe secured over 61 percent of the vote to Morgan Tsvangirai’s 34 percent.
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Professor. Why did the 2008 election results take more than one month to be announced?
No vote rigging – it never happened. No gukuruhundi – it never happened. No hyper inflation due to Gono and the printing press – it never happened. No abductions like Dzamara – it never happened. No farm invasions or murders on the farms since 2000 – it never happened. The people of Zimbabwe are happiest in the world. Agriculture in Zimbabwe is the best in the world now under Prof Scoones. Zimbabwe has the best prisons in the world for political detainees and the prison food is the best in the world. Zimbabwe has the best judiciary and police force in the world. But, wait for it – it is the RBZ and the fiscal system that is the envy of the World Bank and the IMF. Oh, yes – and the best President in the world as well, of course.
When are the people of Zimbabwe going to rise up and kill Robert Mugabe and destroy his
crony regime?
These African professors! Calibre!!!!!! In other countries they would be mere lecturers!
This man definitely singing for his supper…..
seriously? the law allows ZPF to kill people?
I am gobsmacked! What was that Israeli firm doing? Did more than 200 MDC supporters commit suicide? Some people really speak nonsense.
But of course its in Da Herald – and KNOW that Da Herald NEVER LIES. Don’t we?
Mr Madhuku, chokwadi munochiziva. You were infiltrated a long time ago.
Madhuku murwere wefungwa. The disease has finally caught up with him. Rest in peace