Symbol copyright AFP Image caption Emmerson Mnangagwa has been declared the lawful winner of the July presidential ballot
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s win in last month’s polls has been upheld through Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Court.
The opposition MDC Alliance had brought the felony challenge announcing the vote was once marred via “mammoth robbery and fraud”, however this was rejected by the court.
Delivering the decision, Leader Justice Luke Malaba known as allegations of tampering “bold and unsubstantiated”.
It used to be Zimbabwe’s first election in view that lengthy-time chief Robert Mugabe used to be ousted from energy remaining year.
Two days after the vote, a minimum of six other people were killed in clashes among the military and MDC Alliance supporters, who alleged that party leader Nelson Chamisa had been robbed of victory.
sooner than the court docket ruling, the streets across the courthouse within the capital, Harare, had been cordoned off by way of security forces.
The BBC’s Shignai Nyoka in Harare says that the city’s roads are empty.
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Chief Justice Malaba stated he had ruled against the opposition’s petition because it lacked “specificity” and did not meet “the needful same old of evidence”.
“The Most Productive proof would have been the contents of the poll containers themselves,” he said.
