Tapiwa Masenda

Versions of names: Тапива Масенда

Zimbabwe

Political activity

Masenda Tapiwa is the Provincial Youth Chair at the Zimbabwe African National Union — Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) party. He is also the President of the Zimbabwe International Youth Investment Council.

Missions

Individual Observers at the 2022 pseudo-referendum for the formal annexation of occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia to Russia

Political affiliation at time of mission: identified

Party’s name: Zimbabwe African National Union — Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF)

Official function at time of mission: Ordinary party member Provincial Youth Chair

Quotes regarding this election

Residents of Zimbabwe consider Russia their “big brother”; ties between our countries have recently become stronger. Therefore, when it became known that new regions wanted to join the Russian family, I wanted to come here and see with my own eyes how this was happening, especially since I had never been to Russia,” says Tapiwa Masenda, a lawyer from Zimbabwe. [Translated from Russian]

Source link & date: https://mir-info.com/careers/v-krym-priehali-inostrannye-nabljudateli-za-hodom-referendumov (2023-09-17)

Corresponding elections

Referendum Election Ukraine Occupied territories 2022

Classification: illegitimate

From 23 to 27 September 2022, the Russian forces organised a sham election process - pseudo-referendum as a pretext for the formal annexation of the regions of occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson by Russia. The annexation of the four regions was announced on 30 September 2022.