Supreme Court upholds lower court ruling that Chamisa’s leadership ‘unconstitutional’
Zimbabwe's top court on Tuesday upheld the decision of a lower court that Nelson Chamisa was not the legitimate leader of the country's largest opposition party.
The party split into two factions with Khupe leading the MDC-T and Chamisa leading the MDC-Alliance under whose banner he contested the 2018 presidential election, which he lost narrowly to incumbent president Emmerson Mnangagwa.In a 2019 ruling, high court judge Edith Mushore declared Chamisa's leadership “unconstitutional and therefore null and void.”
Tuesday's Supreme Court ruling means that whoever was leading the MDC during Tsvangirai's time, automatically returns to their positions under the MDC-Alliance banner. “There is no need to denigrate the courts any more, the courts have ruled,” Mwonzora said. “We are a party of rules, and we are a party of law.”
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