Incumbent president Robert Mugabe and current Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai have been passed by Zimbabwe’s Nomination Court to contest the upcoming presidential elections slated for Wednesday 31 July, 2013. 

In a statement contained in a Government Gazzete, a total of five Presidential candidates and a combined 871 National Assembly candidates will contest the 210 constituencies in the July 31 elections.

“It is hereby notified, in terms of section 106 of the Electoral Act (Chapter 2: 13), that at the close of the Nomination Court which sat on Friday, 28 June, 2013, the following candidates were nominated for election to the office of President -Mugabe Robert Gabriel (Zanu-PF), Dabengwa Dumiso (ZAPU), Tsvangirai Morgan (MDC-T), Ncube Welshman (MDC) and Mukwazhe Munodei Kisinoti (ZDP),” read the gazette.

The Gazzette also emphasized that harmonized elections will take place on Wednesday 31 July, 2013 from 7 am to 7 pm for the purpose of electing a person to the office of the President.

This is elections is viewed as crucial to bring to an end the four year uncomfortable power-sharing deal betwwn the ZANU-PF and the MDC.

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