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Succession clause escalates Zanu-PF's fights
18 Jan 2016 at 06:31hrs | Views
The succession clause contained in Zimbabwe's new constitution which says the last acting president will temporarily lead the country in the event of an incumbent leader dying or being incapacitated in office is apparently kindling the post congress Zanu-PF's brutal wars.
Zanu-PF's insiders and analysts who spoke to the Daily News at the weekend said the clause had made the acting presidency a very important position in the ruling party circles, and partly explained the alleged intense jostling for power between vice presidents Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko each time the president was out of the country.
Meanwhile, Zanu-PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo says the ongoing defection of dozens of the party's cadres across the country to former Vice President Joice Mujuru's People First movement is inconsequential.
Khaya Moyo's defiant retort came as reports filtered in this week that many disgruntled ruling party regional officials and ordinary members, particularly in Mashonaland East, were switching camp to People First.
Among those touted to be ditching the warring post-congress Zanu-PF and stampeding to People First are former ruling party national youth league political commissar John Mushayi and Mashonaland East provincial executive member Bonny Mutize.
Khaya Moyo added derisively that he neither knew Mushayi nor was he aware of the existence of Mujuru's project, saying it was "a mere myth".
Zanu-PF's insiders and analysts who spoke to the Daily News at the weekend said the clause had made the acting presidency a very important position in the ruling party circles, and partly explained the alleged intense jostling for power between vice presidents Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko each time the president was out of the country.
Meanwhile, Zanu-PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo says the ongoing defection of dozens of the party's cadres across the country to former Vice President Joice Mujuru's People First movement is inconsequential.
Khaya Moyo's defiant retort came as reports filtered in this week that many disgruntled ruling party regional officials and ordinary members, particularly in Mashonaland East, were switching camp to People First.
Among those touted to be ditching the warring post-congress Zanu-PF and stampeding to People First are former ruling party national youth league political commissar John Mushayi and Mashonaland East provincial executive member Bonny Mutize.
Khaya Moyo added derisively that he neither knew Mushayi nor was he aware of the existence of Mujuru's project, saying it was "a mere myth".
Source - Daily News
