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Tsvangirai rejects his expulsion from MDC-T
01 Jul 2014 at 09:18hrs | Views
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai says he will not recognise his expulsion at the weekend from his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) by a rival faction.
The group has been dubbed the renewal team, and is led by his former right-hand man, secretary general Tendai Biti.
Mr Tsvangirai's decision to stay put in the MDC-T, a party he helped to found in 1999, heralds the splintering of teh country's largest opposition party into three formations in less than a decade.
Mr Tsvangirai's ally Lovemore Moyo, the national chairman, was also expelled.
A faction loyal to Tsvangirai also dismissed as "cheap drama" the alleged expulsion of the former premier by a group of rebels aligned to Biti.
Douglas Mwonzora, spokesperson of the Tsvangirai-led faction, said on Monday that the weekend expulsion of Tsvangirai and national chairman Lovemore Moyo by the rebels was nothing more than cheap stunt.
"President Tsvangirai and national chairman Moyo remain in their positions unfazed by this cheap drama", he maintained.
"It is ironic that the rebels, who masquerade as democrats, would sink so low as to convene a meeting of their so-called tribunal when the High Court had expressly made a ruling on the matter" Mwonzora charged.
Tsvangirai and Moyo were expelled from the MDC at the weekend for allegedly violating the party's constitution.
The decision to expel them was announced by a three-member tribunal made up of lawyers who found the two guilty of 17 charges of violating the MDC constitution, mostly in the run-up to last year's general elections.
The tribunal ruling came more than a day after the High Court barred Biti's faction from conducting a disciplinary hearing where Tsvangirai and Moyo were supposed to appear.
The group has been dubbed the renewal team, and is led by his former right-hand man, secretary general Tendai Biti.
Mr Tsvangirai's decision to stay put in the MDC-T, a party he helped to found in 1999, heralds the splintering of teh country's largest opposition party into three formations in less than a decade.
Mr Tsvangirai's ally Lovemore Moyo, the national chairman, was also expelled.
A faction loyal to Tsvangirai also dismissed as "cheap drama" the alleged expulsion of the former premier by a group of rebels aligned to Biti.
"President Tsvangirai and national chairman Moyo remain in their positions unfazed by this cheap drama", he maintained.
"It is ironic that the rebels, who masquerade as democrats, would sink so low as to convene a meeting of their so-called tribunal when the High Court had expressly made a ruling on the matter" Mwonzora charged.
Tsvangirai and Moyo were expelled from the MDC at the weekend for allegedly violating the party's constitution.
The decision to expel them was announced by a three-member tribunal made up of lawyers who found the two guilty of 17 charges of violating the MDC constitution, mostly in the run-up to last year's general elections.
The tribunal ruling came more than a day after the High Court barred Biti's faction from conducting a disciplinary hearing where Tsvangirai and Moyo were supposed to appear.
Source - BDlive
