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Opposition accuses government of gerrymandering

    JOHANNESBURG

    Opposition parties in Zimbabwe accused the government on Friday of attempting to rig next month’s parliamentary elections by redrawing electoral districts in favour of the ruling ZANU-PF party, media reports said.

    The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said that the number of urban constituencies, where it claims it is the strongest, had been cut down. “They are using that to rig elections,” MDC Secretary General Welshman Ncube was quoted as saying. “Nothing can persuade us to believe that urban constituencies have been reduced.”

    The head of the Delimitation Commission, Judge Wilson Sandura, was quoted as saying that there had been a decrease in the number of voters registered in Harare and Bulawayo and that the number of constituencies in each city had therefore been reduced.

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