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Zimbabweans do not believe elections enable voters to remove non-performing leaders

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission will have an uphill task as it prepares for the 2018 elections as a staggering 56 percent of Zimbabweans do not believe that they can remove non-performing leaders through elections.

The situation is even worse for the opposition as only a paltry 14 percent of Movement for Democratic Change supporters felt they could vote out non-performing leaders.

Urban voters are more skeptical than rural voters and the better educated do not believe elections change anything.

This is all contained in the latest study released by Afrobarometer which shows that even among Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front supporters, only those from Mashonaland West felt that elections worked very well to remove non-performing leaders. Fifty-three percent felt so.

In Bulawayo and Harare, which are MDC-T strongholds, less than a third of the citizens had faith in elections.

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The Insider is a political and business bulletin about Zimbabwe, edited by Charles Rukuni. Founded in 1990, it was a printed 12-page subscription only newsletter until 2003 when Zimbabwe's hyper-inflation made it impossible to continue printing.

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