{"id":9937,"date":"2019-06-11T14:42:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T14:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=9937"},"modified":"2019-06-11T14:42:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T14:42:44","slug":"zanu-pf-to-vote-through-secret-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zanu-pf-to-vote-through-secret-ballot","title":{"rendered":"Zanu PF to vote through secret ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ZANU PF has finally decided to conduct its future internal elections via a secret ballot as opposed to the show of hands method which it has employed for years.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to resolutions passed Monday during an extra-ordinary politburo session at the party\u2019s Harare headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Newly appointed party political commissar Victor Matemadanda is set to be the first to administer the new format.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rules and regulations shall apply to all members of the party intending to contest in cell, village, branch, district and Central Committee structures as guided by the constitution,\u201d read the statement released after the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElection of executive members at cell, village, branch, district, Provincial and Central Committee must be carried out by secret ballot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRules and regulations of intra-party elections shall apply from such a day as may be determined by the Central Committee through the central political commissar by means of circular to all provinces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zanu PF has been voting either by show of hands or provincial endorsements which characterised ex-President Robert Mugabe\u2019s tenure as party First Secretary.<\/p>\n<p>Secret voting conducted by Zanu PF in the past have often been chaotic and characterised by vote buying and intimidation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZANU PF has finally decided to conduct its future internal elections via a secret ballot as opposed to the show of hands method which it has employed for years. This is according to resolutions passed Monday during an extra-ordinary politburo session at the party\u2019s Harare headquarters. Newly appointed party political commissar Victor Matemadanda is set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":9940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[38,409,120,339],"class_list":["post-9937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-zanu-pf","tag-committee","tag-parties","tag-security"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Zanu PF to vote through secret ballot - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zanu-pf-to-vote-through-secret-ballot\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zanu PF to vote through secret ballot\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ZANU PF has finally decided to conduct its future internal elections via a secret ballot as opposed to the show of hands method which it has employed for years. 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