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MDC-T youth assembly to ditch under-performing MPs
05 Jun 2012 at 06:53hrs | Views
MDC-T youth assembly has forged an alliance with the women's league to support each other's candidates during primary elections and ditch non performing seating members of Parliament.
Youth Assembly vice president Costa Machingauta said some current members of parliament are not interested in youth issues hence they will ditch them.
"We have learnt our lessons. The MPs we have been electing in the past 12 years have shown they do not have an appreciation of problems that affect youths and literally have no idea on how to get us out of the mire.
"Hence the youth assembly has made a deliberate decision to support our own and at the same time we have forged an alliance with the women's wings," said Machingauta.
He added "why continue to mourn about service delivery and failure by MPs to solve our problems when we can easily put our people in those positions."
At the weekend, outspoken Mbizo MP Settlement Chikwinya urged disgruntled MDC-T members to kick out underperforming MPs.
"MDC is the people's project and we should not allow it to be lost because some people who were put in power have ditched you. What the people need to do is to kick out those people and replace them with new leadership from within the party," he told a rally.
Last MDC-T national executive announced that it has opened the floor for nominations and subsequently primary elections in readiness for national elections.
Youth Assembly vice president Costa Machingauta said some current members of parliament are not interested in youth issues hence they will ditch them.
"We have learnt our lessons. The MPs we have been electing in the past 12 years have shown they do not have an appreciation of problems that affect youths and literally have no idea on how to get us out of the mire.
"Hence the youth assembly has made a deliberate decision to support our own and at the same time we have forged an alliance with the women's wings," said Machingauta.
At the weekend, outspoken Mbizo MP Settlement Chikwinya urged disgruntled MDC-T members to kick out underperforming MPs.
"MDC is the people's project and we should not allow it to be lost because some people who were put in power have ditched you. What the people need to do is to kick out those people and replace them with new leadership from within the party," he told a rally.
Last MDC-T national executive announced that it has opened the floor for nominations and subsequently primary elections in readiness for national elections.
Source - Byo24News
