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Zanu-PF Politburo meeting latest
17 May 2012 at 11:42hrs | Views
The extraordinary Zanu-PF Politburo meeting has assigned national political commissariat team to go and conduct re-runs in all areas with disputed DCC elections.
Speaking to journalists soon after the revolutionary party's supreme decision making body meeting, Zanu-PF Secretary for Information and Publicity, Rugare Gumbo said it was a no-holds barred discussion which lasted for over seven hours.
Gumbo said the presidium is not happy with what has been going on during the DCC elections held in some areas.
"We had a comprehensive report from the National Political Commissar on the restructuring exercise, in particular on the DCC elections. There was an extensive discussion on that and obviously there were areas of concern, and as a result we gave the Political Commissar another opportunity to go back and address those areas of concern; where there is need for re-runs, those should be conducted," said Gumbo.
He said the party is behind the candidature of the First Secretary and President of the party, Robert Mugabe for the upcoming elections expected this year.
"We discussed a number of issues, for instance, we re-affirmed that elections are going to be held this year and our candidate is our President.
Gumbo said anybody else in the so-called factions is not following the party's constitution and dictates, and is rather referred to as a destabiliser.
Turning to the on-going constitution making process, the party spokesperson said the party recommended that Copac should bring to finality the formulation of the supreme law.
"We discussed also the issue of Copac, that we need a quick resolution of the constitution making process. The Politburo demanded that this process be concluded as soon as possible," Gumbo said.
He said the party's highest decision making body is not impressed by lack of agricultural inputs for both the current winter and the upcoming summer seasons.
Speaking to journalists soon after the revolutionary party's supreme decision making body meeting, Zanu-PF Secretary for Information and Publicity, Rugare Gumbo said it was a no-holds barred discussion which lasted for over seven hours.
Gumbo said the presidium is not happy with what has been going on during the DCC elections held in some areas.
"We had a comprehensive report from the National Political Commissar on the restructuring exercise, in particular on the DCC elections. There was an extensive discussion on that and obviously there were areas of concern, and as a result we gave the Political Commissar another opportunity to go back and address those areas of concern; where there is need for re-runs, those should be conducted," said Gumbo.
He said the party is behind the candidature of the First Secretary and President of the party, Robert Mugabe for the upcoming elections expected this year.
"We discussed a number of issues, for instance, we re-affirmed that elections are going to be held this year and our candidate is our President.
Gumbo said anybody else in the so-called factions is not following the party's constitution and dictates, and is rather referred to as a destabiliser.
Turning to the on-going constitution making process, the party spokesperson said the party recommended that Copac should bring to finality the formulation of the supreme law.
"We discussed also the issue of Copac, that we need a quick resolution of the constitution making process. The Politburo demanded that this process be concluded as soon as possible," Gumbo said.
He said the party's highest decision making body is not impressed by lack of agricultural inputs for both the current winter and the upcoming summer seasons.
Source - zbc
