4.1.1. In Mashonaland East and Chipinge, Party members alleged the imposition of candidates. Members in Mashonaland East alleged candidate imposition from the United Kingdom whom the electorate was unaware of and the team was further informed that the consensus process was not being conducted fairly. In Mashonaland Central the team was informed that most of the constituencies had been allocated to a preferred candidate and endorsement was either due to the fact that it was not contested or by consensus and not by voting. 4.1.2. Further to this, the team engaged the MDC-T Provincial Organising Secretary, for Manicaland, who was directly involved in the planning of the primary elections. He noted that there were a few areas where consensus had been reached. Therefore, it was anticipated that most areas were to conduct the primary elections. The team was also informed that the Party’s voters’ roll would be used during the primaries but however, they could not provide the exact dates for the election as they were waiting for a directive from their Headquarters. 4.2. Campaigns 4.2.1. During the Maboleni (Vungu District) Midlands rally, the ZHRC team observed that proceedings were peaceful with police maintaining law and order. There was no evidence of vote buying or hate speech from the political party. The supporters gathered included both men and women. This is in compliance with Section 67 (2) (c) of the Constitution which states that every Zimbabwean citizen has the right to participate in peaceful political activity. Page 5 of 16