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Tsvangirai, Biti set to reunite
10 Apr 2017 at 08:01hrs | Views
After years of mudslinging, the MDC-T leader and former premier, Morgan Tsvangirai and the PDP led by Tendai Biti are now back on talking terms with the latter saying it has now realised that it was pandering to Zanu-PF whims when it used to attack the former prime minister.
The dark days are gone now opposition parties are now starting to engage with the aim of forming a grand coalition.
Tsvangirai has reportedly reunited with his ex-secretary general and former finance minister in the Government of National Unity (GNU), Biti, behind the curtain to synergize and synchronize protest votes, in a bid to push Zanu PF out of power in the upcoming 2018 watershed presidential and parliamentary elections.
Tsvangirai and Biti, who now leads the opposition outfit, People's Democratic Party (PDP) as president, fell out in April 2014, when a faction led by Biti claimed to have suspended Tsvangirai from the MDC because of a "remarkable failure of leadership", while Tsvangirai concurrently came out guns blazing, announcing the expulsion of Biti from the party altogether with 21 MPs aligned to him, being recalled from parliament the following year.
Tsvangirai had accused Biti of being manipulated by President Robert Mugabe, to destabilize the party, whose internal divisions all but worsened following defeat to Zanu PF in the 2013 elections.
According to a sources, Biti and Tsvangirai's spokesmen, Jacob Mafume and Obert Gutu, had set the ball rolling meeting over the reunification on behalf of their leaders more than thrice already since January 2016.
"Tsvangirai and Biti were always going to find each other," said the official. "I can put it on record that the two will officially announce a re-union pact soon. Right now they continue playing their political cards close to the chest, but it is now a done but confidential deal."
The dark days are gone now opposition parties are now starting to engage with the aim of forming a grand coalition.
Tsvangirai has reportedly reunited with his ex-secretary general and former finance minister in the Government of National Unity (GNU), Biti, behind the curtain to synergize and synchronize protest votes, in a bid to push Zanu PF out of power in the upcoming 2018 watershed presidential and parliamentary elections.
Tsvangirai and Biti, who now leads the opposition outfit, People's Democratic Party (PDP) as president, fell out in April 2014, when a faction led by Biti claimed to have suspended Tsvangirai from the MDC because of a "remarkable failure of leadership", while Tsvangirai concurrently came out guns blazing, announcing the expulsion of Biti from the party altogether with 21 MPs aligned to him, being recalled from parliament the following year.
Tsvangirai had accused Biti of being manipulated by President Robert Mugabe, to destabilize the party, whose internal divisions all but worsened following defeat to Zanu PF in the 2013 elections.
According to a sources, Biti and Tsvangirai's spokesmen, Jacob Mafume and Obert Gutu, had set the ball rolling meeting over the reunification on behalf of their leaders more than thrice already since January 2016.
"Tsvangirai and Biti were always going to find each other," said the official. "I can put it on record that the two will officially announce a re-union pact soon. Right now they continue playing their political cards close to the chest, but it is now a done but confidential deal."
Source - Byo24News
