A spokeswoman for the Citizens’ Coalition for Change (CCC), an opposition party in Zimbabwe, told the assembled media in Harare that his group was doing well in the current elections.
“The information we have is that we are leading on the presidential election, comfortably and we are doing well on the parliamentary elections,” Promise Mukwanazi said.
“We expect this trend to continue because the people of Zimbabwe have decided that they want change.”
Following significant delays brought on by a lack of ballot papers, which prevented thousands of Zimbabweans from casting their votes on the official election day on Wednesday, the nation began a second day of voting on Thursday.
Numerous Zimbabweans who were registered to vote at the concerned polling places camped outside the night before the election to await a solution.
“We still did not know who printed them, where they were printed and how many were printed,” Mukwanazi said.
“The question that begs answers is how did we have the level of shortage that we witnessed,” he added.
Voting is anticipated to end at 7 p.m. local time, at which point attention will turn to the vote-counting process. Results are anticipated to be made public on September 1, 2023.
Emmerson Mnangagwa, the 80-year-old president of the ruling ZANU-PF, is running for a second five-year term. He won his first term in a contentious election in 2018 against this year’s opponent, 45-year-old Nelson Chamisa of the CCC.
