Chamisa lost to Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front leader Emmerson Mnangagwa but rejected the results claiming that it was him who won the elections.
He claims to have polled 2.6 million votes and says Mnangagwa who was declared the winner with about 2.4 million votes got less than 2 million.
Chamisa who claimed victory even before the election date had been announced and continued to insist that he would win the elections unless they were rigged even pledged to give Mnangagwa his 18-year-old sister Mnangagwa polled 5 percent of the vote.
Mnangagwa got 50.8 percent which was later adjusted to 50.7 percent.
It could not be immediately confirmed whether the MDC Alliance is indeed lodging the petition but a copy is being circulated by a South African journalist.
It says that the grounds for the petition are the flagrant and multiple violations of the universal human rights of the voters and people of Zimbabwe by the current Zimbabwean regime and the Constitutional Court, including:
The document says the petition will pray and ask for a declaration that the result of the presidential election was a legal nullity.
The ACHPR was established in 1987 by the Organisation of African Unity, now the African Union, “steer Africa from the age of human wrongs into a new age of human rights”.
The AU sent an observer mission to the Zimbabwe elections and adjudged them to be free and fair.
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