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Tsvangirai to donate Nkulumane seat to Zanu-PF
14 Oct 2015 at 13:53hrs | Views
After an elections earthquake
Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change party has insisted that it will not take part in any elections in Zimbabwe as long as the Zanu-PF led government refuses to level the electoral playing field. This position gives President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF another opportunity to make further inroads into Bulawayo, which has long been an MDC-T fortress, following the death of Nkulumane legislator Thamsanqa Mahlangu last week.
There is no going back and even if something serious were to happen, the party said they would still not contest in what might confirm a conspiracy theory that claims that Morgan Tsvangirai struck a secret deal with Zanu-PF to, in the first place, donate the seats to Zanu-PF, as analysts now conclude.
The MDC-T secretary general Douglas Mwonzora was quoted saying, "The position of the MDC is that it is not going to take part in elections without reforms. That position has not been changed."
For the first time in 15 years, Zanu-PF June this year managed to win seats in five Bulawayo constituencies virtually unchallenged.
Mwonzora said the thought of relinquishing yet another seat in Bulawayo will not worry his party.
There is no going back and even if something serious were to happen, the party said they would still not contest in what might confirm a conspiracy theory that claims that Morgan Tsvangirai struck a secret deal with Zanu-PF to, in the first place, donate the seats to Zanu-PF, as analysts now conclude.
The MDC-T secretary general Douglas Mwonzora was quoted saying, "The position of the MDC is that it is not going to take part in elections without reforms. That position has not been changed."
For the first time in 15 years, Zanu-PF June this year managed to win seats in five Bulawayo constituencies virtually unchallenged.
Mwonzora said the thought of relinquishing yet another seat in Bulawayo will not worry his party.
Source - online
