HARARE – The newly-elected Members of Parliament and Senators will be sworn-in on Wednesday, September 5.
There are 210 elected MPs and 60 women elected through proportional representation in the House of Assembly, for a total of 270 seats.
In the upper house, the Senate, 60 are elected through proportional representation while two seats are reserved for disabled people and 18 for traditional chiefs adding up to 80 seats.
A notice from parliament issued Friday said MPs would take their oath of office starting at 10AM, while the Senators would be sworn-in beginning 2.30PM.
According to results announced by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, which are not suspended by undecided election challenges through the courts, Zanu PF has a total of 180 seats in the House of Assembly broken down as 145 directly elected and 35 party-list women’s quota seats.
The MDC Alliance has 87 MPs in total, 63 secured through election and 24 seconded through the women’s quota based proportionately on the overall share of the votes the party got.
There is one independent, Temba Mliswa in Norton, and Masango Matambanadzo, who won a seat for the National Patriotic Front in Kwekwe Central.
The MDC-T also gets one seat through the women’s quota.
In the Senate, Zanu PF has 35 seats, the MDC Alliance 24, traditional chiefs 18, disabled representatives two and the MDC-T one seat.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected to name his Cabinet after the swearing-in of the MPs. He can only name five ministers from outside Parliament.
