The ban announced by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, who also doubles up as Health and Child Care minister, coincided with a mass recall of opposition legislators under controversial circumstances.
Alex Magaisa, a Zimbabwean constitutional law expert based at the University of Kent in the United Kingdom, said the ban was evidence that President Emmerson Mnangagwa was using the Covid-19 to stifle democracy.
Zimbabwe on Friday banned by-elections to fill vacant parliamentary and local government seats citing the Covid-19 pandemic.
The ban announced by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, who also doubles up as Health and Child Care minister, coincided with a mass recall of opposition legislators under controversial circumstances.
