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The Government of Zimbabwe has said it received the SADC Electoral Observation Mission (SEOM) final report last Thursday and will give a response in due course.
In a statement on Friday, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Amon Murwira said the Government is currently studying the report and will either accept or reject its recommendations. He said:
<blockquote>
We received the SADC report yesterday (Thursday) and we will give our response. We are reading it.
As a report of election observations, it will come with its recommendations, which we will either accept or reject, but it is important to have comments on a report.
All that needs to be known is that it is not a legal instrument. It is peer-reviewed, so we can accept or rebut it.
</blockquote>
In its final report on the Zimbabwe 2023 Harmonised Elections, SEOM urged aggrieved parties to approach courts to resolve disputes emanating from the polls. It said:
<blockquote>
The SEOM calls for all concerned parties to ensure that any grievances with respect to the election results are channelled through the appropriate legal processes to ensure the exhaustion of domestic legal remedies.
The SEOM noted that … some aspects of the Harmonised Elections fell short of the requirements of the Constitution of Zimbabwe, the Electoral Act, and the SADC Principles and Guidelines Governing Democratic Elections (2021).
The SEOM commends political leaders for spreading the messages of peace and non-violence throughout the electoral cycle.
</blockquote>
The opposition CCC led by Nelson Chamisa has been calling for a fresh election after SEOM said some aspects of the polls fell short of the requirements of Zimbabwe’s laws and SADC Principles and Guidelines Governing Democratic Elections.
These included the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC)’s failure to avail voting materials to some polling stations on voting day, violence and intimidation of voters, banning of opposition rallies, and a controversial delimitation of electoral boundaries, among others.
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Zimbabwe Confirms Receipt Of SADC Election Observers' Final Report

The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC), which is a coalition of local civil society organisations, has written to Angolan president João Lourenço, who is the current Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) chairperson, seeking the regional body’s intervention “return” Zimbabwe “to majority rule”.
In a letter seen by <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/local-news/article/200017188/csos-turn-to-sadc-over-zim-polls">NewsDay</a>, dated 18 September 2023, CiZC chairperson Peter Mutasa appealed to Lourenço that SADC considers the election observer mission reports issued by various bodies critical of how the 2023 Zimbabwe Harmonised Elections were conducted. The letter read in part:
<blockquote>
Sadly, as expressed by the various election observer mission reports including the SADC Elections Observer Mission (SEOM), the Zimbabwe Election Support Network and the African Union-COMESA Joint EOM (AU), the elections in Zimbabwe were not free, fair or credible.
In light of that, Your Excellency, we humbly request that your office diplomatically engage Harare to assist this country in returning to majority rule.
The current electoral coup is not good for Zimbabwe, the SADC and the African Union.
</blockquote>
Most of the election observer missions, including SEOM, reported that the elections did not meet regional and international standards for the holding of free, fair and credible polls.
Mutasa described President Emmerson Mnangagwa and ZANU PF’s win as an “electoral coup”. He wrote:
<blockquote>
The SADC that you lead faces the task of pre-empting and hence stopping the scourge of military coups, by averting and stopping “electoral coups” in southern Africa.
Zimbabwe must be assisted by the region to cure the bane of contested elections and governmental legitimacy which is stalling her economic recovery and sustainable growth.
As a way ahead, Mr. President, we kindly ask your esteemed office to cause a SADC extraordinary summit to meet and receive reports from all parties including our present government and us, civil society.
</blockquote>
Zimbabwe’s main opposition party, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) rejected the election outcome and has been engaging SADC leaders to intervene and call for a fresh election.
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Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition Approaches SADC Chairman Over Disputed August Elections

SADC Heads of State are set to debate the contents of a damning report by the SADC Election Observer Mission (SEOM) on Zimbabwe’s 2023 Harmonised Elections, reported <a href="https://www.zimlive.com/ramaphosa-confirms-sadc-plans-to-hold-summit-over-zimbabwe-poll-report/">ZimLive</a>.
Zimbabwean authorities and representatives of the SADC election observer mission are expected to make presentations to the SADC Heads of State.
This was revealed on Wednesday by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa while speaking to SABC on the sidelines of the ongoing United Nations General Assembly (UNGA78) in New York.
According to the preliminary report by SEOM, Zimbabwe’s 23 August 2023 Harmonised Elections did not meet regional and international benchmarks governing the running of credible polls.
Ramaphosa came under scrutiny at home and abroad for both congratulating and attending Mnangagwa’s inauguration.
In fact, Ramaphosa was among only three SADC Heads of State who attended Mnangagwa’s inauguration, there other two being the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Felix Tshisekedi and Mozambique’s Filipe Nyusi. Said Ramaphosa:
<blockquote>
If one looks at that report, it actually says there were challenges; challenges with regards to a number of things that have got to do with the election.
Many countries throughout the world have such challenges; the United States is a prime example with regards to the last election.
They (observers) have said in the report, as I read it, that certain things need to be improved.
They have not declared the election as invalid, unfree and unfair; they have highlighted certain challenges.
What was said by representatives of the observer mission still has to be discussed in SADC because it’s not a final report.
Those are challenges that need to be addressed.
Well, there is a lack of transparency, they (observers) need to come up with the details and I would say, yes, let the details be put forward so that we can deal with them.
So, we are waiting to receive that report at the SADC level so that we can deal with it because if anything, it was an interim report.
So, once the report is put to the SADC body, we will then debate it and we will also hear representations from Zimbabwe as well as the SADC observer mission.
</blockquote>
Meanwhile, Mnangagwa met Ramaphosa, Nyusi, and SADC chair, Angolan President João Lourenço, in New York on Wednesday.
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Ramaphosa Says Observers Never Declared Zimbabwe Elections Unfree And Unfair

The Government of Zimbabwe has rejected claims of a diplomatic fall-out with neighbouring Zambia after the SADC Election Observer Mission (SEOM), which was headed by former Zambian vice president Nevers Mumba, released a damning report on Zimbabwe’s 2023 Harmonised Elections.
Both Government officials and ZANU PF politicians have discredited the SEOM report and singled out Mumba for criticism.
ZANU PF has accused Mumba and Zambian leader and SADC Troika chairperson Hakainde Hichilema, of fronting Western powers in pushing for regime change in Zimbabwe.
Thousands of Zambians marched on the streets of Ndola, Zambia’s third largest city in Copperbelt province on Monday, in protest against remarks made by ZANU PF secretary for finance, Patrick Chinamasa.
The protesters accused Chinamasa of having confessed that he killed Zambian leader Levy Mwanawasa, who died of an ailment in 2008, and also of threatening the life of Hichilema.
However, Zimbabwe’s Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesperson Livit Mugejo was quoted by <a href="https://www.zimlive.com/zimbabwe-denies-tiff-with-zambia-after-damning-sadc-observer-mission-report/">ZimLive</a> as saying relations between the two neighbouring countries were cordial. He said:
<blockquote>
Kindly note that diplomacy is not done through the press and we will not comment on public statements.
There are proper diplomatic channels we communicate with Zambia and any other state.
And, as far as we are concerned, we are not aware of any collapsed relations.
</blockquote>
Information Publicity and Broadcasting Services Ministry’s secretary, Nick Mangwana claimed there was a plot within SADC to push for the convening of an extra-ordinary summit on Zimbabwe.
He did not mention Zambia by name, but international relations observers concluded that he indeed implied that Zambia was behind the plot.
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Zimbabwe Denies Claims Of A Diplomatic Tiff With Zambia

Zimbabwean government spokesperson Ndavaningi Mangwana has apparently responded to Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema who said it is “abnormal” for colleagues to call each other names when trying to solve a problem that they created.
In a video recording that has been circulating on social media, Hichilema hit back at his critics, saying it defies logic that those engaged in name-calling are the ones who created the problem in the first place.
It is not clear who Hichilema was referring to but commentators have suggested that the Zambian leader was referring to Zimbabwe’s ruling party, ZANU PF. He said:
<blockquote>
Calling each other names when solving a problem created by colleagues, and names are being called by those who created the problem, it’s not logical. It is not normal. It is called an abnormality, that is what we call it.
</blockquote>
ZANU PF officials have labelled Hichilema a puppet of the West after his pick, as Chairperson of the SADC OPDSC, to head the SADC Election Observer Mission (SEOM) to Zimbabwe, Nevers Mumba, and his team, condemned the 23 August Harmonised Elections.
The SEOM and other international observers said the elections were not free, fair and credible.
In apparent response to Hichilema, Mangwana said what is abnormal is when an official appointed to lead an organ of a regional body attempts to usurp the powers of a neighbouring country’s government. Tweeted Mangwana:
<blockquote>
WHAT’S ABNORMAL: For someone to be appointed for an assignment by an organ of a subcontinental body and then behave with supranational arrogance… For a cleric from a neighboring country to usurp the power of the Executive, its Parliament, its Concourt and its Supreme Court and other institutions. That is abnormal!
</blockquote>
Mumba is a cleric and according to a report, he founded the Victory Bible Church and Victory Ministries International, a church in Zambia.
In its preliminary report, the SEOM condemned the disqualification of presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere by the courts and the delimitation of electoral boundaries by the Zimbabwe Electoral Authority (ZEC).
Some ZANU PF officials claim Hichilema is working with Western countries that want regime change in Zimbabwe.
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Zimbabwe Government Spokesperson Responds To Hichilema's "Name-calling" Comments

Zimbabwe is seeking to change SADC’s statutes and guidelines on elections after the SADC election observer mission (SEOM) criticised the country’s 2023 Harmonised Elections.
Speaking on SABC recently, presidential spokesperson George Charamba suggested that key decisions regarding the SEOM are currently being made by an individual, a situation he described as untenable. Said Charamba:
<blockquote>
When you have a process that creates a Head of State, a government, that can create war and peace, does it make sense to leave one man in charge?
We must use the weaknesses we have seen in this mission to set things right in SADC.
</blockquote>
Writing on X (formerly Twitter), Charamba said when Zimbabwe assumes the SADC chairmanship position next year, will push for changes to the status quo. He wrote:
<blockquote>
Those countries now look forward to Zimbabwe using its host and chair status to challenge this whole tradition of one leader who happens to chair an arm of an SADC organ exclusively determining an observer mission to an electoral process of sovereign SADC members.
My hunch is that this might be changed in Harare next year. Which makes sense! You can’t leave so critical midwifery process to the whims of one leader, a process which can make or break peace in a country, which produces a whole President, a whole government, a whole Parliament of any one SADC nation-state!
</blockquote>
Since the SEOM released its preliminary report on the 23 August Harmonised Elections, ZANU PF has singled out former Zambian Vice-President and SEOM head Nevers Mumba for criticism.
The SEOM report said the elections were not free, fair and credible and did not meet regional and international standards.
United Kingdom-based lawyer and human rights advocate Brighton Matebuka was quoted by <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/local-news/article/200016403/zim-pushes-to-change-sadc-laws">NewsDay</a> as saying ZANU PF “spectacularly” failed to isolate Mumba.
He said the absence of the majority of SADC Heads of State from Mnangagwa’s inauguration was a “powerful diplomatic indication of the extent of the isolation he now suffers from the region owing to the shameless and sham election that he recently held”. He added:
<blockquote>
Publicly, ED [Mnangagwa] and his regime were desperate to present a fait accompli or business-as-usual image of a juggernaut marching on crushing anything in its path but privately, the gesture undertaken by SADC would have hit home.
SADC carefully choreographed the rebuffs in order to signify the seriousness of the situation and to communicate to the regime that it was not backing down or throwing SEOM and Dr. Mumba under the bus.
</blockquote>
Matebuka said the absence of the SADC chair of the organ on politics, defence and security, Hakainde Hichilema, SADC’s immediate past chairperson and Namibian President Hage Geingob, and SADC chairperson, President Joao Lourenco of Angola from Mnangagwa’s inauguration showed that there was coordination among SADC leaders. He said:
<blockquote>
That absence clearly suggests that diplomatic coordination took place and that the strategy of singling out Dr. Nevers Mumba when trying to undermine SEOM’s report has spectacularly backfired.
</blockquote>
Meanwhile, Hichilema has SADC leaders should avoid calling each other names especially when solving problems they created, calling it “an abnormality”.
ZANU PF has labelled Hichilema, who appointed Mumba to head the SEOM, a Western puppet.
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Zimbabwe To Push SADC To Change Guidelines On Elections - Charamba

The secessionist opposition political party, Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP), said that the preliminary report by the SADC Electoral Observer Mission (SEOM) which criticised Zimbabwe’s 2023 Harmonised Elections should not come as a surprise.
MRP leader Mqondisi Moyo said the electoral irregularities highlighted by SEOM were a feature in all elections held in Zimbabwe since the attainment of independence in 1980.
In a letter seen by <a href="https://cite.org.zw/zim-has-been-holding-unfair-elections-since-1980-mrp/">CITE</a>, addressed to SEOM Head Nevers Mumba on August 31, 2023, Moyo first congratulated the SADC team for successfully observing the 23 August Harmonised Elections in Zimbabwe. He said:
<blockquote>
I noted from your Preliminary Statement that Zimbabwean elections fell short of meeting both SADC and Zimbabwean elections guidelines in many respects. This has been the case since 1980 when the country attained independence.
</blockquote>
Moyo, however, sought to draw SEOM’s attention to what MRP refers to as Mthwakazi, that is, the South Western part of Zimbabwe covering Matabeleland provinces and part of Midlands. He said:
<blockquote>
But even if elections were “free and fair,” Zimbabwean politics would still remain grossly unfair to the people of Mthwakazi.
</blockquote>
In the letter, Moyo claimed that the people of “Mthwakazi” have suffered since 1893 when people in Matabeleland, which was then an independent state, were defeated by the British South Africa Company (BSAC) forces. He added:
<blockquote>
In 1923, we suffered yet another demise, the forceful amalgamation of our country with Mashonaland. In 1980, our colonial status was transferred from Britain to Zimbabwe.
</blockquote>
Moyo said people in Matabeleland endured a Zimbabwean government-led “genocide” in reference to the Gukurahundi killings between 1982 and 1987. He said:
<blockquote>
About 40 000 of our people perished. It is sad that SADC didn’t bother to pay any attention to what was happening in Mthwakazi.
That was despite its role of ensuring the safety of people in Southern Africa.
</blockquote>
Moyo implored SADC to intervene and facilitate the creation of a new State covering Matabeleland and parts of Midlands provinces, separate from Zimbabwe.
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Mthwakazi Activist Commends SADC Election Observers

The Zimbabwean government has asked the SADC Election Observer Mission (SEOM), to alter its preliminary report by removing parts that criticised the manner in which the 23 and 24 August Harmonised Elections were conducted, <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/local-news/article/200015901/change-your-adverse-report-govt-tells-sadc">reported NewsDay</a>.
Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Amon Murwira, told ambassadors from the SADC region that SEOM should operate within the confines of the Constitutions and laws of member States.
This comes after the SEOM condemned ZEC’s delimitation report and the disqualification of Saviour Kasukuwere from the presidential race.
In a diplomatic statement read to ambassadors from Zambia, Angola, Botswana and Tanzania who attended the briefing, Murwira said:
<blockquote>
It is our understanding that SADC respects the sovereignty of member States and that SEOM as its subsidiary operates within the confines of the Constitutions and laws of member States, which are passed by sovereign Parliaments.
We don’t believe it is in the remit of SEOM to question or interfere with member States’ Constitutions, laws, and court decisions passed by their sovereign democratic institutions…
Zimbabwe has full confidence that the errors cited in the SEOM report will be corrected with the view of ensuring the intended beneficial contribution to strengthening the electoral processes of member States, including Zimbabwe.
</blockquote>
On Saturday, 26 August, ZEC chairperson Priscilla Makanyara Chigumba announced that President Emmerson Mnangagwa had retained the presidency by a 52.6% margin.
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Zimbabwe Tells SADC Election Observers To Correct Adverse Report

President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Sunday morning rejected allegations by the opposition that the 2023 presidential election was rigged in his favour.
He also said observer missions that criticised the country’s laws “overstepped” their mandate.
Mnangagwa addressed reporters at State House the morning after the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) announced him as the winner with 52.6% of the poll, beating CCC’s Nelson Chamisa’s 44%.
Asked to respond to allegations by his competitors that the election was shameful and neither free nor fair, Mnangagwa said:
<blockquote>
I can assure you that I did not conduct the elections. I competed with them in this race to win the elections.
Those who feel the race was not run fairly, should know where to go to complain.
</blockquote>
Zimbabwe’s 2023 Harmonised Elections were criticised by the SADC observer mission, which said some parts of the electoral process fell short of standards. SEOM head Nevers Mumba said:
<blockquote>
The mission observed that the pre-election and voting phases of the 23-24 August harmonised elections were peaceful and calm.
However, the mission noted that some aspects of the harmonised elections fell short of the requirements of the Constitution of Zimbabwe, the Electoral Act and SADC principles governing democratic elections.
</blockquote>
Mumba, a former Vice President of Zambia, also criticised Zimbabwean laws, including the “Patriotic Act” which is a new section of the amended criminal law that punishes Zimbabweans for conniving with foreigners to push for sanctions and foreign military intervention.
However, speaking to journalists this Sunday, Mnangagwa said that the election observers should not have an opinion on Zimbabwean laws. He said:
<blockquote>
I’m aware that some observer missions went beyond their call of duty and began interrogation legislation passed by our Parliament.
It is my view that every sovereign state passes legislation through its legislature, and Zimbabwe is no exception.
I don’t think it’s in the mandate of election observers to interrogate institutions of a sovereign government, the judiciary, or the legislature.
I believe their mandate is to observe the transparency, peacefulness and conduct of the elections.
</blockquote>
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I Did Not Run This Election, I Was A Participant, Says Mnangagwa

CCC leader Nelson Chamisa said that he held meetings with the SADC Election Observer Mission where he briefed the regional body about an alleged plot by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to rig the upcoming general elections, reported <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/opposition-leader-chamisa-details-massive-anomalies-in-meeting-with-sadc-as-eu-commonwealth-engagements-beckon/">NewZimbabwe.com</a>.
Addressing thousands of CCC supporters at a campaign rally at White City Stadium in Bulawayo on Sunday, 20 August, Chamisa said the opposition party will not allow Mnangagwa to rig this year’s elections. Said Chamisa:
<blockquote>
I have had meetings with SADC, and I have briefed them on the challenges we have. I told them that Mnangagwa is not preparing to win, he is plotting to rig.
I told SADC that he stole the election in 2018 but this time I will not allow him to steal it again.
I told them Zimbabwe is the next SADC chair and they should get ready to welcome me.
I told them that up to this day, we do not have a voters’ roll that is searchable.
But remember I am a former ICT Minister, we have cracked the PDF format they gave us and now know what they are trying to do, we will not allow them to steal our votes, never.
I told them that I have not yet seen the ballot paper, we have requested from ZEC that we agree on the ballot, the ink and the arrangement.
Mnangagwa has already rigged the arrangement (but) even if he rigs the ballot paper he will not win this election.
I told SADC that we are having a problem with the issue of deployment of postal ballots but my intelligence is telling me the majority of police officers defied their bosses and voted for me. I thank all the police officers.
I told them we have problems with ghost polling stations where they want to stuff ballot papers but we have managed to ensure a polling agent for every station.
I have told SADC that ZANU PF wants to get the presidential result before reporting it to ZEC but once we get the result we will tell the world what we got ourselves, we will not accept that.
We will have the result by the end of the next day.
</blockquote>
Chamisa said there is no way Mnangagwa will win the 23 August election, saying “Any result that will see Mnangagwa being announced the winner of Wednesday’s elections is fake.”
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Chamisa Details Alleged Electoral Irregularities In Meetings With SADC Observers

SADC has condemned the use of the SADC brand image in an article in Zimbabwe’s state-run daily publication “<a href="https://www.herald.co.zw/poll-observers-told-to-stick-to-mandate/">The Herald</a>” that ran with quotes attributed to presidential spokesperson George Charamba.
The article, which had the headline: “Stray and we will deport you: Charamba warns election observers”, had a picture of an election observer dressed in SEOM regalia.
In a statement, the SADC Electoral Observation Mission to Zimbabwe (SEOM) said:
<blockquote>
On 11 August 2023, in Gaborone, Botswana, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Secretariat noted with great concern a story captioned “Stray and we will deport you: Charamba warns election observers” which attributed to the Herald Newspaper of Zimbabwe, and which appeared on the online “newsdzezimbabwe” 
website on 9 August 2023.
The story is accompanied by a photographic image of an individual dressed in the SADC Election Observation Mission (SEOM) regalia.
The article alleges ulterior motives and pro-opposition agenda by foreign election observers reported to have deployed to Zimbabwe for the forthcoming elections scheduled for 23 August 2023.
The story also mentions specific institutions and observers who are said to have deployed to Zimbabwe to discredit the country’s elections.
None of the institutions or individuals named are linked with SADC or SADC’s official election observation mission (the SEOM).
The use of the image of an individual wearing the SADC election observation regalia in the story, unfortunately, associates SADC with the observers who the story alleges “are audaciously interfering in the country’s electoral processes”.
The use of the SADC branded image to accompany this story places SADC in a negative context and has the unfortunate potential of putting personnel in the service of SADC at risk.
</blockquote>
The image on the article, as well as the headline of the story, have since been changed. The headline has been altered to “Poll observers told to stick to mandate”.
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SADC Condemns Abuse Of Its Brand Image By Zimbabwean State Media

The SADC Electoral Observation Mission (SEOM) to Zimbabwe will deploy its members countrywide on Friday ahead of general elections to be held on 23 August.
In a statement released on 11 August, SEOM said the SADC Secretariat team has been in the country since 10 August. It said:
<blockquote>
the SADC Secretariat team arrived in Harare on 10 August 2023 to prepare logistics for the launch of the SADC Electoral Observation Mission (SEOM) at the Rainbow Towers Hotel in Harare, and its concomitant full deployment on 18 August 2023.
The SEOM will be deployed to all ten (10) Provinces of Zimbabwe to observe the pre- and post-election 
phases and the polling day.
Before the Launch, the Head of Mission (HoM), the Republic of Zambia (the Incoming Chairperson of the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Affairs) for SEOM Zimbabwe shall undertake a Courtesy Call to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of the Republic of Zimbabwe.
The HoM will also conduct meetings with the leadership of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) as well as the SADC Ambassadors and High Commissioners Accredited to the Republic of Zimbabwe.
</blockquote>
It has invited the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Zimbabwe, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), Zimbabwe Republic Police, Attorney General, political parties, voters and citizens, traditional leaders, faith-based groups, civil society, members of the media, Diplomatic Missions/Corps, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Zimbabwe, European Union Delegation in Zimbabwe, other International Cooperating Partners, and the Heads of Delegations of International Electoral Observation Missions, to attend the Launch of SEOM Zimbabwe at the Rainbow Towers Hotel in Harare.
SEOM’s mandate is guided by the revised SADC Principles and Guidelines Governing Democratic Elections of 2021. Reads the statement:
<blockquote>
The Mission will assess the conduct of the elections against a set of central principles stipulated in the revised SADC Principles and Guidelines Governing Democratic Elections of (2021) which include, amongst full participation of the citizens in the democratic and development processes, measures to prevent political violence, intimidation and intolerance, equal opportunity for all political parties to access the State Media as well as access to information by all citizens, and acceptance of and respect for the election results by all political parties.
</blockquote>
SEOM will join various other observer groups, such as the Carter Centre and the African Union-COMESA teams, already stationed in the country’s 10 provinces.
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