Women participation in political processes Just over half of LTO reports indicated that women were not participating in the process equal to men, although this was slightly improved in rural areas, this is shown in figure 4 below. . Equality of participation between men and women 167 147 Yes No Figure 4: Pie chart indicating the level of men and women participation in the political processes One example was that women were prevented from campaigning or putting up posters by MDC Alliance in Kuwadzana East Constituency, Harare. On a few other occasions women were prevented from attending rallies. Abuses against political parties ZESN received reports of violations of rights that affected political parties. Figure 5 below shows the numbers of reports received for the different acts that affected political parties. 6 REPORT ON PRE-ELECTION POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT AND OBSERVATION OF KEY ELECTORAL PROCESSES