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Zimbabwe VP pledges 'free and fair' election in 2018

Zimbabwe's Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa today pledged that next year's elections will be peaceful, "free and fair" despite opposition concerns about electoral interference.

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Zimbabwe's Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa today pledged that next year's elections will be peaceful, "free and fair" despite opposition concerns about electoral interference.

Speaking on the sidelines of a conference aimed at courting South African investors, Mnangagwa noted that the last election in 2013 "was free of any violent incidents." "We believe that we shall have a free and a fair election during 2018," he told reporters, pledging that the upcoming presidential and parliamentary ballot would, like the last, be "free of violence."

Previous elections have been marred by violence against opponents of President Robert Mugabe as well as voter intimidation and alleged fraud.

The ruling ZANU-PF party, in power since independence in 1980, has a stranglehold on government and is often accused by the opposition of electoral fraud, voter intimidation and violence.

Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai believes Mugabe's party has never fairly won any election in recent times.

"ZANU-PF has not won recent elections, it has rigged them," he told

 

(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)

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