Zimbabwe court dismisses Nelson Chamisa’s bid to annul election result
Zimbabwe’s constitutional court has upheld President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s victory in the July 30 elections, throwing out opposition leader Nelson Chamisa’s petition that sought to overturn the result. The landmark court ruling means Mnangagwa will be sworn in as Zimbabwe’s president by Sunday. Delivering his ruling at the constitutional court in Harare, chief justice Luke Malaba said Chamisa had failed to give the court "primary evidence". "In the final analysis, the court finds that the applicant has failed to place before it clear, direct, sufficient and credible evidence that the irregularities he alleges marred the electoral process materially existed. In other words, there was no proof of the happenings of these irregularities as a matter of fact." Malaba said it was difficult by global standards to overturn results of an election. "As already indicated, it is an internationally accepted principle of election disputes that an election is not set aside easily, merely on the basi...
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