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The United Nations Human Rights Office, OHCHR, has considered Zimbabwe’s Advocate Talent Rusere’s concern over Zimbabwe’s recurrence of disputed elections and increasing the probability that Zimbabwe’s 2023 elections will be supervised by the United Nations international body.

The OHCHR said this Rusere had placed a detailed report of voter intimidation and massive coercion linked to Emerson Mnangagwa’s ZANU PF party.

Ahead of the 30 July poll, Liz Throssell, OHCHR spokesperson, told the press that, the UN staff could not verify the reports.

Rusere an ally to Nelson Chamisa one of the contenders in the 2023 presidential race told the United Nations that he would not allow Zimbabwe to have peace if the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission couldn’t be disbanded before elections.

Meanwhile, ZANU PF party told the people of Zimbabwe on Twitter that, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) will run the 2023 elections, Advocate Rusere threatens to burn the polling stations.

ZEC will organise and run Zimbabwean elections in 2023 with United Nations supervision.

The newly formed CCC party President ,Nelson Chamisa has since 2018 maintained that he was robbed of victory in that year’s presidential election. Rusere said, ZEC in connivance with ZANU PF, manipulated election results in favour of Mr Mnangagwa however Chamisa failed to prove the allegations in the Constitutional Court and Mnangagwa was eventually declared the winner.

Rusere told the UN that Zimbanwe have learnt from the past experiences, hence he wrote to SADC officials and some leaders from other countries including the United Nations.

Zimbabwe’s opposition has since the turn of the millennium accused the ruling party of vote-buying, intimidating voters, and rigging elections to retain power.

Below is the link to the main article on Advocate Rusere’s Facebook page

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