Despite Western pressure, the Zimbabwe elections are going on, according to an official

An official from the party of the current president told RT that the West is dissatisfied that Africa has maintained its unity.

Obert Mpofu, secretary for administration of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party, said to RT on Monday that the nation has not been divided by the illegal sanctions imposed by Western nations that “hate” Zimbabwe.

In the nation of southern Africa, he was speaking just before a general election. A president, councillors, and parliamentarians will be chosen by Zimbabweans on Wednesday.

Mpofu asserts that a significant number of American NGOs are bringing polarising activities into the nation. Instead of focusing on the nation’s development aid, they “talk about food handouts to all people and blame the government for not producing enough food to feed its citizens.”

Despite pressure from the West on Zimbabwe, the spokesman of President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa’s political party claims that the country’s current administration has been able to provide food security for its people.

Regarding the elections, Mpofu stated that observers from all over the world, including China and Russia as well as other African governments, had been invited to observe the voting process.

He is confident that ZANU-PF will win because “citizens have seen what the president is capable of doing and what ZANU-PF is capable of doing in terms of infrastructure development, agriculture, mining, all sectors have been developed.”

The second round of voting will occur on October 2 if there is a tie in the presidential election. 11 candidates have been given the go-ahead by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission.

The current president is in charge of the political group known as the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF). Since the nation’s independence was proclaimed in 1980, it has ruled Zimbabwe.