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MDC-T elections boycott campaign could endanger grand coalition, says Zapu
27 May 2015 at 02:46hrs | Views
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai's "No Reforms, No Election" campaign in areas where other opposition parties have fielded candidates for the June 10 by-elections could endanger an envisaged grand coalition, NewsDay reported.
A senior official in the Dumiso Dabengwa-led Zapu yesterday warned that the former Prime Minister's "contradictory behaviour" had serious repercussions on efforts to find common ground by opposition forces ahead of the 2018 elections.
"Tsvangirai is sending wrong signals through his 'No Reforms, No Election' campaigns in areas he is aware that opposition parties have fielded candidates," the Zapu official said on condition of anonymity.
"If he was a man seeking out others, who wants to co-operate and work together for the democratisation of the country, one would have expected him to either urge his supporters to vote for our candidates or better still stay away and shut up than come in and campaign for ballot spoiling.
"It is his contradictory nature that at times can be very difficult to understand and for any rational person to put up with."
A senior official in the Dumiso Dabengwa-led Zapu yesterday warned that the former Prime Minister's "contradictory behaviour" had serious repercussions on efforts to find common ground by opposition forces ahead of the 2018 elections.
"Tsvangirai is sending wrong signals through his 'No Reforms, No Election' campaigns in areas he is aware that opposition parties have fielded candidates," the Zapu official said on condition of anonymity.
"If he was a man seeking out others, who wants to co-operate and work together for the democratisation of the country, one would have expected him to either urge his supporters to vote for our candidates or better still stay away and shut up than come in and campaign for ballot spoiling.
"It is his contradictory nature that at times can be very difficult to understand and for any rational person to put up with."
Source - newsday
