Zimbabwe’s main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), says it has not been given an electronic copy of the voters register despite repeated requests.
A party official said the MDC has been trying to obtain the poll for the past two weeks, but has been rebuffed on a daily basis.
“I’m apoplectic. How come the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has handed a copy to the British embassy, but not to the main political party contesting the election, when we’re the one entitled to it?’’ Bloomberg quotes Senator David Coltart.
“We have 210 constituencies to check and we’ve not even been able to begin,” he added.
The British Embassy in the capital, Harare, tweeted that it “advised patience” and that it had paid for a copy of the voters roll after having queued for a long time.
Coltart, a former education minister, said he had confirmed that the request to obtain a copy had again been denied. He was advised to “come back another time.”
The elections body said earlier this month that it had registered 5.6 million voters for the first poll of the post-Robert Mugabe era, which is set to be held on July 30.
