Zimbabwe Gets 24 New Political Parties for 2018 Polls | BREAKING NEWS
22 March 2017
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Staff Reporter| As the nation readies for the upcoming 2018 elections, Zimbabwe has received a sudden blast of 24 political parties. The rapid speed to start new parties has been such that in just the last 120 hours alone for instance, two more new political-beasts have been formed. (ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW)

By December 2016, another new kid on the block, the United Democratic Front, had opened shop and was seen unveiling its policies and campaign programs. This was soon followed by many others who have since dominated the news scenes. Many of these are however known Mugabe surrogate parties while others are mere ambitious pet projects. Dr Noah Manyika, who leads the Build Zimbabwe Alliance, last week told ZimEye the reason why there is a plethora of political parties is that Zimbabwe is one of the only countries in the world which does not legislate the registering of political parties [SEE VIDEO, article continues below].

Zimbabwe’s total voters are less than 6,5 million in number, while for instance the United Kingdom has 60 million voters and only 7 active parties.

ZimEye is at present conducting a census of the political parties hoping to obtain the membership statistics. We ask our valued readers and contributors for your input on these figures.

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