The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has increased nomination fees for presidential candidates from US$1,000 to US$20,000 per candidate.
In an Extraordinary Gazette released on Friday, ZEC also increased nomination fees for aspiring Members of Parliament from US$50 to US1,000.
According to Statutory Instrument 143 of 2022, people eyeing senatorial and council seats will be expected to fork out US$100.
ZEC says the new fees have been approved by the Minister of Justice, Ziyambi Ziyambi.
The electoral body also announced new fees for accessing the electronic voters' roll and other versions of the voters’ register.
ZEC says the cost of an electronic copy of the voters’ roll shall be US$150 for the national register. In 2017 the national electronic copy was US$200.
Other fees for the electronic copy of the voters’ roll are as follows: polling station increased from US$10 to US$20, ward (US$15 – US$25), constituency (US$50 – US$30) an provincial – US$150 – US$60.
ZEC also says, “A hard copy of a monochrome copy of the voters’ roll shall be (1) United States dollars per page of the national voters roll, a polling station voters’ roll, a ward voters’ roll or a constituency voters’ roll, whichever one is sought.”