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Tsvangirai re-engages traditional allies
04 Dec 2013 at 02:11hrs | Views
The opposition MDC-T is making desperate efforts to re-engage its traditional allies it had ditched after joining the inclusive Government, amid reports that majority of them were turning down the overtures.
Reports say some civic organisations such as the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions and the National Constitutional Assembly that transformed itself to a political party recently, turned down the MDC-T's "olive branch."
"Of course there are some members within these organisations who do not share the same views with the MDC-T and many of them were not even with the party when it was formed. So we're going to associate with those who want solutions, legitimacy and democracy despite the fact that their leadership do not echo the same voice with us", said MDC-T spokesperson Mr Douglas Mwonzora.
He said his party sought to bring back its allies among them labour movements, churches, students movements among others to improve its chances of performing better during the 2018 harmonised elections.
He claimed they would organise an all-stakeholders meeting to discuss issues affecting the economy.
"It's not yet certain as to when the all-stakeholders meeting will be held but it's something that we look forward to convening possibly at the end of this month or early next year. But it's not definite as has been alerted by other information structures," he said.
Mr Mwonzora said the MDC-T party was also going to hold its 2nd National Working Peoples Convention on a date yet to be announced.
The first convention was held in 1999 and was attended mainly by founder members of the party.
Zinasu President, Mr Pride Mukono, was quoted as saying recently that they no longer wanted to associate themselves with any political faction even though it was not going to deny its members to attend the MDC-T conferences.
The leader of the MDC 99 Mr Job Sikhala and Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe secretary general Mr Raymond Majongwe, have gone public attacking the MDC-T and vowed not to join it.
Reports say some civic organisations such as the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions and the National Constitutional Assembly that transformed itself to a political party recently, turned down the MDC-T's "olive branch."
"Of course there are some members within these organisations who do not share the same views with the MDC-T and many of them were not even with the party when it was formed. So we're going to associate with those who want solutions, legitimacy and democracy despite the fact that their leadership do not echo the same voice with us", said MDC-T spokesperson Mr Douglas Mwonzora.
He said his party sought to bring back its allies among them labour movements, churches, students movements among others to improve its chances of performing better during the 2018 harmonised elections.
He claimed they would organise an all-stakeholders meeting to discuss issues affecting the economy.
Mr Mwonzora said the MDC-T party was also going to hold its 2nd National Working Peoples Convention on a date yet to be announced.
The first convention was held in 1999 and was attended mainly by founder members of the party.
Zinasu President, Mr Pride Mukono, was quoted as saying recently that they no longer wanted to associate themselves with any political faction even though it was not going to deny its members to attend the MDC-T conferences.
The leader of the MDC 99 Mr Job Sikhala and Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe secretary general Mr Raymond Majongwe, have gone public attacking the MDC-T and vowed not to join it.
Source - herald
