How To Register A Political Party In Zimbabwe
The party led by dr thokozani khupe registered as the mdc t maintaining the name the party was called by at the time of tsvangirai s death while the other party born out of that split teamed up with other political parties to register as mdc alliance.
How to register a political party in zimbabwe. A statutory body akin to the kenyan registrar of parties be established to deal with the registration of parties instead of the emb. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources unsourced material may be challenged and removed. This article needs additional citations for verification. The zimbabwe electoral commission says over 100 political parties have registered ahead of the 2018 general election. This may simply be a hard number like 1000 or it may be a certain percentage of voters registered in your area like 5 percent.
Zimbabwe electoral commission zec has refuted allegations that it has in collaboration with zanu pf registered a new political party the movement for democratic change mdc zimbabwe. You may choose to register at national level which will allow your party to contest elections of the national assembly provincial legislatures and all municipal councils. The registration of political parties act of 1998 provided for the regist ration of political parties and the setting up of a register of political parties in the uk. Zec does not register political parties. This article is part of a series on the politics and government of zimbabwe.
The zimbabwe electoral support network zesn an independent electoral support agency has called for strict requirements for registration of political parties saying doing so will increase transparency and accountability in the county s political parties and reduce incidents of disputes such as happening in the mdc factions camps. Parliamentary and council candidates must be over 21 years and above. Political parties must be regulated to ensure that they adhere to a certain legal and normative framework in terms of their internal functioning financing and code of conduct. The parties born out of that split fulfilled the only legislative requirement around the registration of political parties. By mutsa makuvaza tichaona chikunda.
To qualify as a political party you ll typically need a certain number of signatures. Aspiring presidential candidates must be 40 years and above. Aspiring candidates must be legally registered voters.