any 5 unfair practices used by president of zimbave to win the election
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Millions of Zimbabweans went to the polls on Wednesday in an election that opponents of Africa's oldest leader, Robert Mugabe, condemned as "illegal, illegitimate, unfree and unfair".
Voting was peaceful and turnout high across the country but the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), attempting to end Mugabe's 33-year-rule, claimed to have uncovered evidence of massive fraud and rigging.
"Thousands and thousands of people are being disenfranchised by virtue of not finding their names on the voters' roll," said Tendai Biti, the MDC secretary-general and finance minister in the government. He described election officials as arrogant and insensitive to the complaints.
Biti took matters into his own hands, storming into a polling station in the Mount Pleasant area of the capital, Harare, claiming that 2,000 voters, many of whom were underage, had been brought in from rural areas to vote for Mugabe's Zanu-PF party.
"They don't even stay in Mount Pleasant," he snapped, turning to one voter and demanding that he name one street in the neighbourhood. The voter stared at Biti impassively and said nothing.
The minister fumed: "They can't even be persuaded to lie, Zanu-PF is so desperate … we can't cheat an election, guys. How can you cheat blatantly like this? It's the mother of all rigging to prevent the mother of all defeats."
One of the buses used to transport the voters had a sign for Honde Valley, more than 185 miles away near the Mozambican border, but the driver declined to say where he picked the passengers up. "It's not a secret – but we're not allowed to say that," he muttered.
An extra polling tent appeared to have been set up for the voters, most of whom were young and had shaved heads; all stared ahead silently and refused to speak. Biti claimed the shaved heads were synonymous with Zanu-PF's youth militias.
Speaking into a mobile phone to demand a court injunction, Biti could be heard saying: "They are ultra rural, from the back of beyond."
Zizhou Fambisai, the local election presiding officer, said he could not tell where the voters were from. A police officer insisted they were police recruits brought by bus from a nearby training base.
Earlier Biti had produced a long list of objections to the conduct of the elections, arguing that the voters' roll contained two million invalid names, that there was renewed intimidation in rural areas, and that extra voting papers had been printed in a plot to swap ballot boxes.
"We've already made clear this election is illegal, illegitimate, unfree and unfair," he said, while still predicting an MDC victory. "We are participating with a heavy heart."
An independent election observer who analysed the roll last month also cited huge irregularities. "There are clearly hundreds of thousands of deceased people on the voters' roll. Either that or Japan does not have the oldest age population in the world. There are thousands of 114-year-olds."
At the last election, in 2008, the MDC leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, beat Mugabe in the first round but then withdrew from a run-off, citing violence in which more than 200 people died.
PLEASE MARK IT AS BRAINLIEST
Voting was peaceful and turnout high across the country but the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), attempting to end Mugabe's 33-year-rule, claimed to have uncovered evidence of massive fraud and rigging.
"Thousands and thousands of people are being disenfranchised by virtue of not finding their names on the voters' roll," said Tendai Biti, the MDC secretary-general and finance minister in the government. He described election officials as arrogant and insensitive to the complaints.
Biti took matters into his own hands, storming into a polling station in the Mount Pleasant area of the capital, Harare, claiming that 2,000 voters, many of whom were underage, had been brought in from rural areas to vote for Mugabe's Zanu-PF party.
"They don't even stay in Mount Pleasant," he snapped, turning to one voter and demanding that he name one street in the neighbourhood. The voter stared at Biti impassively and said nothing.
The minister fumed: "They can't even be persuaded to lie, Zanu-PF is so desperate … we can't cheat an election, guys. How can you cheat blatantly like this? It's the mother of all rigging to prevent the mother of all defeats."
One of the buses used to transport the voters had a sign for Honde Valley, more than 185 miles away near the Mozambican border, but the driver declined to say where he picked the passengers up. "It's not a secret – but we're not allowed to say that," he muttered.
An extra polling tent appeared to have been set up for the voters, most of whom were young and had shaved heads; all stared ahead silently and refused to speak. Biti claimed the shaved heads were synonymous with Zanu-PF's youth militias.
Speaking into a mobile phone to demand a court injunction, Biti could be heard saying: "They are ultra rural, from the back of beyond."
Zizhou Fambisai, the local election presiding officer, said he could not tell where the voters were from. A police officer insisted they were police recruits brought by bus from a nearby training base.
Earlier Biti had produced a long list of objections to the conduct of the elections, arguing that the voters' roll contained two million invalid names, that there was renewed intimidation in rural areas, and that extra voting papers had been printed in a plot to swap ballot boxes.
"We've already made clear this election is illegal, illegitimate, unfree and unfair," he said, while still predicting an MDC victory. "We are participating with a heavy heart."
An independent election observer who analysed the roll last month also cited huge irregularities. "There are clearly hundreds of thousands of deceased people on the voters' roll. Either that or Japan does not have the oldest age population in the world. There are thousands of 114-year-olds."
At the last election, in 2008, the MDC leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, beat Mugabe in the first round but then withdrew from a run-off, citing violence in which more than 200 people died.
PLEASE MARK IT AS BRAINLIEST
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