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5.5 Election of President and Vice-Presidents
(1) The election of a President and two Vice-Presidents must take place within the period
specified in section 7.4.
(2) Every candidate for election as President must nominate two persons to stand for
election jointly with him or her as his or her Vice-Presidents, and must designate one of those
persons as his or her candidate for first Vice-President and the other as his or her candidate for
second Vice-President.
(3) The President and the Vice-Presidents are directly elected jointly by registered voters
throughout Zimbabwe and the procedure for their election is as prescribed in the Electoral Law.
(4) The qualifications for registration as a voter and for voting at an election of a
President and Vice-President are set out in the Fourth Schedule.
(5) The election of a President and Vice-Presidents must take place concurrently with
every general election of Members of Parliament.
5.6 Challenge to presidential election
(1) Subject to this section, any aggrieved candidate may challenge the validity of an
election of a President or Vice-President by lodging a petition or application with the
Constitutional Court within seven days after the date of the declaration of the results of the
election.
(2) The election of a Vice-President may be challenged only on the ground that he or she is
or was not qualified for election
(3) The Constitutional Court must hear and determine a petition or application under
subsection (1) within fourteen days after the petition or application was lodged, and the court’s
decision is final.
(4) In determining a petition or application under subsection (1), the Constitutional Court
may––
(a) declare a winner;
(b) invalidate the election, in which case a fresh election must be held within sixty days
after the determination; or
(c) make any other order it considers just and appropriate.
(5) If, in a petition or application under subsection (1)—
(a) the Constitutional Court sets aside the election of a President, the election of the
President’s two Vice-Presidents is automatically nullified;
(b) the Constitutional Court sets aside the election of either or both Vice-Presidents, the
President must without delay appoint a qualified person or qualified persons, as the
case may be, to be Vice-President or Vice-Presidents.
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