The Supreme Court revokes the removal of his candidacy by the Zimbabwean electoral commission
July 19 (EUROPA PRESS) –
United Zimbabwe Alliance (UZA) leader Elisabeth Valerio will be the only woman to stand as a candidate in the presidential election on August 23 after the successful appeal filed against the removal of her candidacy by the electoral commission.
The Supreme Court of Zimbabwe has revoked during the day the decision of the commission, which argued that the candidate had not paid the stipulated fees, although the policy presented evidence of the transfer to support its appeal, as reported by the Zimbabwean newspaper ‘The Herald’.
During the day, former minister Savior Kasukuwere, a figure close to the late President Robert Mugabe, expressed his “surprise” at a court’s decision to rule out his candidacy for having habitually resided in the country for the 18 months prior to the vote, since he is in exile in South Africa.
Likewise, he has stressed in statements given to the British BBC television channel that he has not been out of the country for 18 months, but has been “traveling through the region” and has lamented the security situation in Zimbabwe, before influencing that “everyone knows” that this is why he left the country.
The politician, an ally of Mugabe, fled the country after the 2017 military coup, which brought current president Emmerson Mnangagwa to power. Although he returned to the country in 2018, he returned to South Africa shortly after denouncing that he was the target of a campaign of political persecution by the new authorities.
The electoral commission had supported a total of eleven candidacies -now twelve, after the inclusion of Valerio-. Leading candidates include Mnangagwa and opposition leader Nelson Chamisa, who has refused to acknowledge the president’s victory in the 2018 election.
