By Talent Gondo| MDC Alliance Presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa has welcomed both regional and international observers who arrived in the country over the past weeks for the upcoming harmonised elections slated for July 30.
Speaking at a press conference at Morgan Tsvangirai House in Harare Tuesday, Chamisa said:
“We want take this opportunity to publicly welcome our guests, the regional and international observers who have come from around the world to bear witness to our historic election on 30 July 2018. This is the first post-Mugabe election. This election presents an opportunity to correct and undo past electoral misdemeanours and transgressions known by all of you.
They (Observers) are here because they know an election is not an event which starts and ends in a single day. It is a process that begins well before polling day and continues well after it, until at least there is transfer of power, which we are confident will happen this year. It is necessary and long overdue.
Thank you for being here with us and I hope you will, during your time here, also enjoy our traditional Zimbabwean hospitality. Our people are kind and generous, please feel at home. And as you travel around our country, please take time to enjoy the gifts of nature that God, the Almighty has bestowed on this wonderful country.”
Chamisa said Zimbabweans are a hopeful people with so much passion for the development of their nation hence the importance of a free, fair and credible election.
“I see great hope and deep passion in the eyes of the people, the young and old, men and women, even boys and girls whose future is at stake in this election,” he said.
We are a nation of kind and generous people with great courage, big hearts, resilience and creativity. These qualities have seen us through extremely tough times and we bank on them once again to see us through.
Zimbabwe, attained its independence from the blood of revered and courageous brave men and women who fought and some died for the right of each and every one of us as citizens to have a right to vote for a leader of our choice in an inclusive, free, fair and credible election.”