A group of Zimbabweans living in Britain have started legal moves to force President Robert Mugabe to allow the country's massive community of more than three million exiles to vote in parliamentary elections next month. According to court documents issued Tuesday, seven members of the Diaspora Vote Action Group in England have applied to the supreme court for an urgent hearing to rule unconstitutional laws that bar Zimbabweans who are registered as voters but who live outside the country from casting their ballots in elections. "The current exclusion of Zimbabweans in the diaspora in participation of the country's political sphere is not only discriminatory but has no basis in law and in fact," said Jefta Madzingo, one of the seven who lives in the English city of Birmingham. The central bank estimates there are 3.4 million Zimbabweans who live outside the country. The figure is a quarter of the population of about 12 million, and more than half of the 5.6 million people registered as voters. --MORE 2322 Local Time 2022 GMT
