How To Register A Political Party In Zimbabwe

Political parties must be regulated to ensure that they adhere to a certain legal and normative framework in terms of their internal functioning financing and code of conduct.

How to register a political party in zimbabwe. This may simply be a hard number like 1000 or it may be a certain percentage of voters registered in your area like 5 percent. This article needs additional citations for verification. How to register a party any party that wants to participate in an election must register with the iec. Aspiring candidates must be legally registered voters. The zimbabwe electoral support network zesn an independent electoral support agency has called for strict requirements for registration of political parties saying doing so will increase transparency and accountability in the county s political parties and reduce incidents of disputes such as happening in the mdc factions camps.

The zimbabwe electoral commission says over 100 political parties have registered ahead of the 2018 general election. Pass around a paper or online form that announces it as a petition to create a political party. To qualify as a political party you ll typically need a certain number of signatures. This article is part of a series on the politics and government of zimbabwe. Zec does not register political parties.

A statutory body akin to the kenyan registrar of parties be established to deal with the registration of parties instead of the emb. You may choose to register at national level which will allow your party to contest elections of the national assembly provincial legislatures and all municipal councils. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources unsourced material may be challenged and removed. By mutsa makuvaza tichaona chikunda. Zimbabwe electoral commission zec has refuted allegations that it has in collaboration with zanu pf registered a new political party the movement for democratic change mdc zimbabwe.

Parliamentary and council candidates must be over 21 years and above. The party led by dr thokozani khupe registered as the mdc t maintaining the name the party was called by at the time of tsvangirai s death while the other party born out of that split teamed up with other political parties to register as mdc alliance. B invite the political party in writing to submit the name of a qualified person to fill the vacancy for which purpose the political party must lodge with the commission a nomination paper in the prescribed form referred to in section 45e 2 countersigned by any two of the designated national office bearers of the party referred to in section 38a l a or by such other two office bearers.