Zimbabwe's main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change - Tsvangirai (MDC-T), had its petition to the local Constitutional Court to postpone the country's general elections scheduled for August this year rejected on Tuesday. 

According to the president of the Supreme Court and the country's judiciary, Judge Luke Malaba, the petition has no grounds. "There is no case law that you can refer to in our statutes to substantiate your legal arguments."

"The Constitution clearly states that elections must be held every five years, along with the terms of elected government representatives who are civil servants, and anything else will lead to a constitutional crisis," added the magistrate, quoted today by the News.

The petition by Douglas Mwonzora's MDC-T party was submitted in March 2022 and called for the general elections to be postponed for at least six months and for the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission's (ZEC) "delimitation report", which establishes the boundaries of constituencies and the rules by which political parties must abide, to be annulled and redrafted.

This Monday, Mwonzora said that his party does not intend to contest the elections based on the ZEC delimitation report because the production of the document "did not follow the proper procedures", according to Notícias.