We need to throw back the Delimitation Preliminary Report to ZEC, says Mpariwa
Proportional Representation legislator Paurina Mpariwa has urged Parliament to throw back the Delimitation Preliminary Report to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC).
Mpariwa is of the view that ZEC has the test to come up with a credible delimitation that will give constituencies and wards equal voting strengths among other things.
She told the National Assembly, that ZEC should be forced to go back to the drawing board.
‘’Honourable Speaker, I am going to suggest in a very simple manner, to harness as other Hon. Members have said, that we have to say ZEC goes back to the drawing board with all the inputs from the Ad Hoc Committee and the others that have been added on to the recommendations including also to give them a timeframe. It does not matter whether they work 24 hours a day but they can do a better job if they consider what the Members of Parliament have done.
Why am I saying so Honourable Speaker, we run the risk of losing the important points that have been highlighted in the Ad Hoc report because that is a parliamentary report, it is our report. If we so associate with it, then we need to actually throw back the report of ZEC for ZEC to go and do a better job. This is what we expected from the Ad Hoc Committee’s report and we give them a timeframe,’’ she said.
Mpariwa, a seasoned legislator who has been in Parliament since 2000, said there is need for a thorough job if the delimitation is to help organize undisputed elections.
‘’Zimbabwe is always on the limelight when it comes to elections – why are we saying so? In order for us to come up with undisputed elections, we need to do a thorough job and consider what the members and the Ad Hoc Committee report had said. ‘’Therefore, I endorse the moving of the report to be endorsed that was done earlier on by Hon. Biti, I second the endorsement and say this is a working document for Parliament of what we expect ZEC to have actually done,’’ she said.
We need to throw back the Delimitation Preliminary Report to ZEC, says Mpariwa
