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Ballot update - Issue number 14 - June and July 2010
Zimbabwe Election Support Network
August 06, 2010

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Introduction

The period under review saw a number of developments including the start of the Parliamentary Select Committee on the Constitution (COPAC) outreach process, the announcement of the proposed reforms to the Electoral Act by the Ministry of Justice, the exciting South African World Cup, and a surprise reshuffle of Ministers by MDC-T's President. In addition, the squabbles between Temba Mliswa, George Marere and Martin Mutasa revealed interesting dimensions of corruption and power struggles involving senior government officials.

The Zimbabwe Election Support Network remains dedicated to the promotion of democratic elections in Zimbabwe. In line with this objective, we continue to analyse the political environment and the 45 rural constituencies that have been systematically selected. The constituencies were especially selected owing to a number of reasons including those were by-elections are due, areas that experienced inordinately high levels of political violence in 2008 as well as constituencies in which a candidate succeeded by notably small margins. This update is informed by observations from the chosen constituencies and broadly captures national political developments in June and July 2010.

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