Twelve candidates are on the ballot paper, but the main contest is expected to be between Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition leader Nelson Chamisa.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is seeking a second and final term in Zimbabwe’s second general election since Robert Mugabe was ousted in a coup in 2017
Mr Chamisa hopes to break the ruling Zanu-PF party’s 43-year hold on power. Zimbabwe has known only two leaders since gaining independence from white minority rule in 1980. “It’s becoming tougher to survive in this country,” said Basil Chendambuya, 50, an early voter in the working-class township of Kuwadzana.
But watchdogs have long alleged that widespread corruption and mismanagement have gutted much of the country’s potential.European Union chief election observer Fabio Massimo Castaldo told reporters at a polling station in Harare that around 30% of polling stations there had significant delays in opening, often linked to the lack of essential materials, “notably, in many cases, paper ballots”.
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