Election date to be known today

This year’s election date will be known today as the Constitutional Court is due to decide on Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa’s application to postpone elections from 31 July to 14 August.

According to a list of cases released by Veritas, the case was the first on the list which included five other cases to be heard by the court.

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s lawyers yesterday asked the court to hear his case together with Chinamasa’s.

Tsvangirai filed an application on Monday seeking a postponement beyond 14 August to allow for reforms necessary to hold free and fair elections. He did not specify any date.

While the MDC is calling for a longer postponement, any postponement, to whatever date, would in fact seem to work in favour of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front as it is the one whose house does not seem in order.

ZANU-PF has not yet held its primary elections but the Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai has completed its.

Despite its protestations, which one observer said were aimed at the international community, the MDC-T is more prepared for the elections than ZANU-PF.

ZANU-PF leader President Robert Mugabe left the country yesterday for medical treatment in Singapore. His spokesman said he should be back at the weekend.

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