Zimbabwe's 2018 elections: funding, public resources and vote buying

Musiwaro Ndakaripa

Review of African Political Economy, 2020, vol. 47, issue 164, 301-312

Abstract: Using the concept of ‘competitive authoritarianism’, this briefing examines how the governing Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF) retained power in the July 2018 presidential, parliamentary and local government elections. It advances that, having come to power through military assistance in November 2017, the new ZANU–PF government instituted cosmetic political reforms to gain domestic and international legitimacy while maintaining financial networks and tentacles on public institutions. This briefing posits that, with a huge funding base, abuse of public resources and massive vote buying, materially, Zimbabwe's 2018 elections were heavily slanted in favour of ZANU–PF.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2020.1735327

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