By A Correspondent | The ZANU PF leader Emerson Mnangagwa is clearly capturing the judiciary in preparation of the 2023 elections, a lawyer during the ZimRights press conference yesterday concluded.

Mnangagwa is doing this by changing the constitution in order to handpick judges without interviews, it was debated, and below was the briefer-

All we have seen [is] the judiciary act as power brokers primarily because of our contested elections, in the last so many elections, elections have been going to court, particularly the presidential election 2018 is a fresh memory. It was the constitutional court that eventually decided who was to be the president.

Because in Zimbabwe elections have been contested, we are still too far from electoral reform. We are likely going to see another contestant election in 2023, where the constitutional court is called upon to determine who is to be the presidential winner.

In terms of our constitution, it is only the constitutional court that can decide a presidential election dispute, so in anticipation of that one would imagine why the president would want to ensure that there are judges that are beholden to him in that constitutional court, elected and promoted to that office by him…

So it’s a clear exercise to us of judicial capture, it’s a clear excercise of taping the judiciary.