MDC-T agonises over appropriate election strategy

Intensifying power struggles within the MDC-T are threatening to widen fissures in the party due to disagreements over the appropriate elections campaign strategy to adopt ahead of harmonised elections later this year.

Sources said a meeting at which 2 strategies were tabled before the party's standing committee for consideration and adoption of the better strategy ended without consensus as debate raged.

MDC-T organising secretary Nelson Chamisa and secretary general Tendai Biti are said to have proposed an all-inclusive party centred campaign strategy which most senior party members seem to favour while PM's advisor Alex Magaisa prefers a presidentially-driven campaign strategy similar to that of the US.