HARARE: Zimbabwe introduced on Wednesday it will choose a brand new president and parliament on July 30, in the country's first electoral check because the removing of its autocratic former leader Robert Mugabe.
His successor, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, unveiled the date in the professional Zimbabwe Government Gazette.
"Monday, the 30th day of July, 2018 (is) the day of the election to the office of President, the election of members of the National Assembly and election of councillors," Mnangagwa mentioned in a proclamation.
Once a right-hand man to the 94-year-old Mugabe, Mnangagwa dramatically succeeded the veteran leader in November after nearly four-decades in price when troops swarmed the streets and briefly seized key sites.
Mnangagwa, 75, will square off against the primary opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) birthday celebration, now led via 40-year-old Nelson Chamisa following the demise of Morgan Tsvangirai in February.
If no candidate receives a easy majority in the first spherical of the presidential election, a run-off will probably be held on September eight.
Elections under Mugabe have been marred via corruption, intimidation and violence, but Mnangagwa has vowed to carry a unfastened and honest vote.
The election will be the first to be monitored via Western observers in a few years.
On Monday Harare and the European Union introduced that observers from the bloc would observe polls in the southern African country for the first time in 16 years.
The head of the closing EU observer undertaking, Pierre Schori, used to be thrown out of Zimbabwe in 2002 on the eve of presidential elections that have been condemned as fallacious.
Following the high-profile spat, Zimbabwe barred the EU and different Western observers from sending additional missions to monitor polls in the country as Mugabe grew increasingly defiant of foreign complaint up till his downfall.
And in an additional signal of Zimbabwe's growing efforts to mend fences with former foes following Mugabe's resignation, the rustic has applied to re-join the Commonwealth, the bloc of former British colonies mentioned Monday.
Harare's membership used to be suspended in 2003 over the violent and graft-ridden elections the previous yr.
Zimbabwe left the Commonwealth on the top of violent land seizures, when white farmers have been evicted in favour of landless black other folks -- a policy that wrecked agriculture and triggered economic cave in.
Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland confirmed that the organisation would additionally send observers to the elections.
Mugabe sent shockwaves during the ruling ZANU-PF, the birthday celebration he dominated for decades, when he not too long ago posed with a retired basic who will take on the executive in this yr's election.
Despite a slew of reformist pledges and bulletins it is unclear whether or not Mnangagwa, who used to be a vital cog in the ZANU-PF birthday celebration and helped Mugabe to carry onto energy for 37 years, has won the beef up of bizarre Zimbabweans.
His successor, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, unveiled the date in the professional Zimbabwe Government Gazette.
"Monday, the 30th day of July, 2018 (is) the day of the election to the office of President, the election of members of the National Assembly and election of councillors," Mnangagwa mentioned in a proclamation.
Once a right-hand man to the 94-year-old Mugabe, Mnangagwa dramatically succeeded the veteran leader in November after nearly four-decades in price when troops swarmed the streets and briefly seized key sites.
Mnangagwa, 75, will square off against the primary opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) birthday celebration, now led via 40-year-old Nelson Chamisa following the demise of Morgan Tsvangirai in February.
If no candidate receives a easy majority in the first spherical of the presidential election, a run-off will probably be held on September eight.
Elections under Mugabe have been marred via corruption, intimidation and violence, but Mnangagwa has vowed to carry a unfastened and honest vote.
The election will be the first to be monitored via Western observers in a few years.
On Monday Harare and the European Union introduced that observers from the bloc would observe polls in the southern African country for the first time in 16 years.
The head of the closing EU observer undertaking, Pierre Schori, used to be thrown out of Zimbabwe in 2002 on the eve of presidential elections that have been condemned as fallacious.
Following the high-profile spat, Zimbabwe barred the EU and different Western observers from sending additional missions to monitor polls in the country as Mugabe grew increasingly defiant of foreign complaint up till his downfall.
And in an additional signal of Zimbabwe's growing efforts to mend fences with former foes following Mugabe's resignation, the rustic has applied to re-join the Commonwealth, the bloc of former British colonies mentioned Monday.
Harare's membership used to be suspended in 2003 over the violent and graft-ridden elections the previous yr.
Zimbabwe left the Commonwealth on the top of violent land seizures, when white farmers have been evicted in favour of landless black other folks -- a policy that wrecked agriculture and triggered economic cave in.
Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland confirmed that the organisation would additionally send observers to the elections.
Mugabe sent shockwaves during the ruling ZANU-PF, the birthday celebration he dominated for decades, when he not too long ago posed with a retired basic who will take on the executive in this yr's election.
Despite a slew of reformist pledges and bulletins it is unclear whether or not Mnangagwa, who used to be a vital cog in the ZANU-PF birthday celebration and helped Mugabe to carry onto energy for 37 years, has won the beef up of bizarre Zimbabweans.
Zimbabwe to elect post-Mugabe president on July 30
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