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Concourt to hear PM application tomorrow

Politics
THE Constitutional Court will tomorrow hear a combined court challenge filed by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and three others where the applicants were seeking an order to set aside President Robert Mugabe’s proclamation of July 31 as the date for the harmonised elections Tsvangirai’s lawyer Advocate Lewis Uriri confirmed the development yesterday

THE Constitutional Court will tomorrow hear a combined court challenge filed by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and three others where the applicants were seeking an order to set aside President Robert Mugabe’s proclamation of July 31 as the date for the harmonised elections Tsvangirai’s lawyer Advocate Lewis Uriri confirmed the development yesterday, adding that lawyers representing MDC leader Welshman Ncube, Nixon Nyikadzino and Maria Phiri had agreed to file a single application to counter Mugabe’s proclamation date Speaking after meeting in chambers, Uriri said: “It was to follow up on the last meeting and to decide whether we have all complied with our undertakings“We have basically decided on how we are going to proceed, who the applicants are going to be in view of the fact that we have brought applications and counter-applications and kind of sanitised the relief that would be sought.

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“So, as the matter stands, you will note that we had five applications: the (Justice minister Patrick) Chinamasa application, Tsvangirai application, Ncube counter application, Nyikadzino application and the Phiri application. So, what we have agreed on is to have Tsvangirai, Ncube, Phiri and Nyikadzino as the principal applicants and the rest of the people will then be respondents.”

He added: “The applications are contending that proclamation number 2/2013 is unlawful and it is unconstitutional.

“Proclamation 2/2013 being the proclamation by which the dates (election) were set. So, we are basically saying that proclamation is unlawful. But even assuming that the proclamation is lawful the Presidential Powers Temporary Measures Act, amendment of Electoral Law Regulations are themselves unconstitutional in two respects.”