Top news items in major Zimbabwean media outlets

HARARE, May 30 (Xinhua) -- The following are the news highlights in Zimbabwe's major media outlets on Wednesday:

--If Zimbabwe holds harmonized elections today, the ruling ZANU-PF presidential candidate Emmerson Mnangagwa will garner 70 percent of the vote against opposition MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's 24 percent, an opinion poll by the Pan-African Forum Limited has revealed.

The Kenya-based network of African scholars conducted the poll whose results released Tuesday, show that Mnangagwa is the people's favorite and so is his ZANU-PF party. (The Herald)

--Zimbabwean main opposition MDC-T said Tuesday the majority of its members are totally opposed to the MDC Alliance which groups seven political parties, casting doubts on its continued existence just a few weeks before harmonized elections on July 30.

MDC-T Chamisa faction national chairman Morgen Komichi told a press conference in Harare Tuesday that all was not well within the Alliance.

He said their offices had been besieged by supporters calling for the party to go it alone in the harmonized elections. (The Herald)

--Zimbabwean President Mnangagwa has signed the Electoral Amendment Act into law to bring legal effect to the Statutory Instrument on the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) carried out by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission ZEC and create a new code of conduct for political parties, candidates and other stakeholders in elections.

The notice was published on Monday in an Extraordinary Government Gazette.

The Statutory Instrument that was used to enable ZEC to use BVR for the creation of a new voters' roll was only in force for six months. (The Herald)

--Zimbabwean Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga on Tuesday rallied warring ZANU-PF camps to bury their differences, stemming from the just-ended party primary elections, to avoid a repeat of protest votes in the upcoming general elections.

In his address at the official opening of the two-day ZANU-PF reconciliation and healing workshop for the party's winning and losing candidates in Harare, Chiwenga admitted the chaos that marred the party's primaries, but cautioned against protest votes. (Newsday) Enditem