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Mujuru to dump Tsvangirai?
27 Jun 2017 at 08:31hrs | Views
National People's Party (NPP) President Joice Mujuru is set to dump Morgan Tsvangirai for Tendai Bit led Coalition of Democrats (CODE), a nine party union of smaller parties, following widening differences on strategy and who between the opposition heavyweights should lead the envisaged grand pact.
CODE comprises Dumiso Dabengwa's ZAPU, Welshman Ncube's MDC, Tendai Biti's PDP and a handful smaller parties with no major following on the country's political landscape.
In April 2017, Mujuru's and Tsvangirai signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that saw the two parties agree on an elite pact that also sought to keep out all the political minnows.
However, a recent public spat over the choice of coalition chief has seen Tsvangirai and his party outflank the ambitious former Zanu-PF loyalist.
A well-placed source told NewZimbabwe.com on Monday that MDC-T and NPP have been haggling over who between Tsvangirai and Mujuru should lead the opposition alliance.
NewZimbabwe reported that this week NPP applied to join CODE and the CODE Troika has approved their application subject to endorsement by the CODE General Council on Thursday.
There will be a signing ceremony on Friday and is is expected that during the signing ceremony, Mujuru will rubbish the MoU she signed with Tsvangirai.
NPP spokesperson Methuseli Moyo denied his party was joining CODE. However, Moyo admitting CODE was the nucleus of a grand opposition alliance.
The rift between MDC-T and NPP has always been imminent after the two parties have also differed on the size of the opposition merger.
CODE comprises Dumiso Dabengwa's ZAPU, Welshman Ncube's MDC, Tendai Biti's PDP and a handful smaller parties with no major following on the country's political landscape.
In April 2017, Mujuru's and Tsvangirai signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that saw the two parties agree on an elite pact that also sought to keep out all the political minnows.
However, a recent public spat over the choice of coalition chief has seen Tsvangirai and his party outflank the ambitious former Zanu-PF loyalist.
A well-placed source told NewZimbabwe.com on Monday that MDC-T and NPP have been haggling over who between Tsvangirai and Mujuru should lead the opposition alliance.
NewZimbabwe reported that this week NPP applied to join CODE and the CODE Troika has approved their application subject to endorsement by the CODE General Council on Thursday.
There will be a signing ceremony on Friday and is is expected that during the signing ceremony, Mujuru will rubbish the MoU she signed with Tsvangirai.
NPP spokesperson Methuseli Moyo denied his party was joining CODE. However, Moyo admitting CODE was the nucleus of a grand opposition alliance.
The rift between MDC-T and NPP has always been imminent after the two parties have also differed on the size of the opposition merger.
Source - newzimbabwe
