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Mujuru, Tsvangirai to form grand coalition?
20 Nov 2014 at 06:07hrs | Views
EMBATTLED vice president Joice Mujuru and MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai might join forces ahead of the 2018 general elections if their alleged grand coalition talks succeed.
According to the State run Press which has in the past attacked Mujuru, representatives of the faction lead by Mujuru and MDC founding member Job Sikhala met in Harare last week to discuss modalities of joining forces ahead of elections in 2018.
This comes at a time when the VP and her cabal are rumored to have been the "moderates" that Tsvangirai said he had been working with pursuant to his abortive "new Zimbabwe."
A meeting was held in Harare last Friday between some members of the Mujuru camp that has been working to unseat President Mugabe, and Sikhala to discuss preparations of a likely merger between the MDC-T and the Mujuru faction.
The parties proposed making VP Mujuru president and Tsvangirai the deputy or alternatively prime minister just like the arrangement in Russia between President Vladimir Putin and Premier Dimitry Medvedev.
The parties also said Simba Makoni should be part of the arrangement as he was close to both VP Mujuru and Tsvangirai.
First Lady Grace Mugabe recently revealed that the launch of both Mavambo/Kusile/Dawn and the MDC were mooted in VP Mujuru's house.
At the meeting Sikhala revealed that he planned to launch a frivolous Constitutional application quoting the First Lady's statements calling for the resignation of VP Mujuru as evidence that President Mugabe was no longer running the country as decisions were being made by his wife.
The revelations came as Tsvangirai yesterday threw his weight behind VP Mujuru and accused the First Lady of seeking to assume leadership of the country in her place.
Tsvangirai spoke as the full opposition arsenal comprising quasi-political NGOs, private newspapers and websites have gone into overdrive defending VP Mujuru while castigating Mugabe for exposing the shady dealings that have made the VP's continued vice presidency quite untenable.
Tsvangirai said the First Lady would never succeed in whatever she was doing, the same language being used by VP Mujuru's allies who are seeking to oust President Mugabe using all means, including forming alliances with the opposition parties.
According to the State run Press which has in the past attacked Mujuru, representatives of the faction lead by Mujuru and MDC founding member Job Sikhala met in Harare last week to discuss modalities of joining forces ahead of elections in 2018.
This comes at a time when the VP and her cabal are rumored to have been the "moderates" that Tsvangirai said he had been working with pursuant to his abortive "new Zimbabwe."
A meeting was held in Harare last Friday between some members of the Mujuru camp that has been working to unseat President Mugabe, and Sikhala to discuss preparations of a likely merger between the MDC-T and the Mujuru faction.
The parties proposed making VP Mujuru president and Tsvangirai the deputy or alternatively prime minister just like the arrangement in Russia between President Vladimir Putin and Premier Dimitry Medvedev.
First Lady Grace Mugabe recently revealed that the launch of both Mavambo/Kusile/Dawn and the MDC were mooted in VP Mujuru's house.
At the meeting Sikhala revealed that he planned to launch a frivolous Constitutional application quoting the First Lady's statements calling for the resignation of VP Mujuru as evidence that President Mugabe was no longer running the country as decisions were being made by his wife.
The revelations came as Tsvangirai yesterday threw his weight behind VP Mujuru and accused the First Lady of seeking to assume leadership of the country in her place.
Tsvangirai spoke as the full opposition arsenal comprising quasi-political NGOs, private newspapers and websites have gone into overdrive defending VP Mujuru while castigating Mugabe for exposing the shady dealings that have made the VP's continued vice presidency quite untenable.
Tsvangirai said the First Lady would never succeed in whatever she was doing, the same language being used by VP Mujuru's allies who are seeking to oust President Mugabe using all means, including forming alliances with the opposition parties.
Source - Chronicle
