2018 Zimbabwean general election Monday July 30,2018

The 2018  Zimbabwean general election  to elect the President and members of both houses of parliament is scheduled to be held on Monday July 30,2018

The Zimbabwe Government Gazette said:

“Monday, the 30th day of July, 2018 (is) the day of the election to the office of President, the election of members of the National Assembly and election of councillors.”

Zimbabwe will hold presidential and parliamentary elections on July 30, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Wednesday July 18,2018, a vote he promises will be free and fair with international monitoring after the ouster of 94-year-old strongman Robert Mugabe.

Mnangagwa, who took power after the November military coup against Mugabe, counts on the election to bolster his legitimacy as he pursues a promised break with Mugabe’s repressive policies while urging foreign investors to return to Zimbabwe.

Missing from the July ballot for the first time in 20 years will be Zimbabwe’s foremost political gladiators, Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai, the longtime opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader who died of cancer in February 2018