The ruling party Zanu PF spokeperson Patrick Chinamasa has said they will continue to hold primary by-elections in all vacant constituencies and councils despite their party’s top executive Constantino Chiwenga who is the country’s Vice President and doubles as the Health Minister’s ban on all by-elections using SI 225A of 2020. New Zimbabwe reports.
While addresing journalist, tough talking Chinamasa said he wants to make it clear that they are ready for the by-elections :
I want to make this clear, as far as Zanu PF is concerned, we are ready for elections.
Chinamasa was then asked why the ruling party was holding by-elections when ZEC and the government suspended them and he responded and said anyone with a problem with that must take it up with the government:
We have been observing all the Covid-19 regulations, whether we go to our 2020 conference, these will be observed. If it does not, we will have to hold it as a virtual conference.
To my knowledge, as Zanu PF, we have already started preparing for our primaries. The postponement of by-elections came because of Covid-19. If you are querying whether it was proper or not, put that to government.
