The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has won all 73 petitions concluded in court following the July 2018 harmonised elections, while the remaining seven cases are still pending.

The election management body said it had not lost a single court case, an indication that it ran last year’s polls in terms of the Constitution and subsidiary laws.

ZEC made the observation on court challenges in its July 2018 harmonised election report tabled in Parliament last week by Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi.

The petitions included the high-profile case brought by MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa, who lost his bid in the Constitutional Court to have President Mnangagwa’s victory nullified after the superiour court ruled that the challenge lacked merit.

The ruling Zanu-PF won 145 National Assembly seats against the MDC-Alliance’s 63 seats.

In its report, ZEC said most of the petitions were premised on “fringe grounds”.

“The Commission was subjected to a barrage of litigation most of which it believed was based on fringe grounds to the electoral process,” reads the report. “In a total of 80 cases filed in the courts of law during the electoral process, the Commission was cited as respondent.”State media