Use of government resources in campaigning ZESN received reports of the use of government vehicles for campaign purposes; use of government buildings or land by only one party while other parties could not use the same; use of government public address system or staging that other parties could not use; government officials speaking at party events; campaigning at government held events; and government food aid, or equipment that was given out at political party events. This is shown in the bar graph below. Incidents of misuse of administrative resources observed Number of reports received 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 Using Using Government Campaigning Using Government government government officials at government food aid or vehicles for buildings or speaking at Government owned equipment campaigning land not party events held events staging or PA given out at allowed to rallies others Zanu-PF MDC Alliance Figure 6: Incidents of the misuse of administrative resources As shown in the bar graph above, out of the 308 reports received, ZANU-PF had the highest number of instances observed of misusing public administrative resources. ZANU-PF was the only party that was allowed the use of government buildings or land for campaigning that was denied other political parties. For instance, in Gokwe Nembudziya the MDC Alliance indicated that they were not allowed to use public grounds and had to resort to holding party primaries at a homestead. Further, ZANU-PF solely enjoyed the use of government PA system or staging that was not allowed to others and had the most cases of giving out government food aid or equipment at its 8 REPORT ON PRE-ELECTION POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT AND OBSERVATION OF KEY ELECTORAL PROCESSES