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Tsvangirai skeptical about grand coalition
10 Mar 2016 at 05:12hrs | Views
MDC-T President Morgan Tsvangirai has expressed skepticism over the authenticity of political parties engaging into a grand coalition which does not involve people on the ground.
Tsvangirai said people have to be careful on coalitions saying they have always believed that coalitions are not a pact of the elites.
'It's about the people and when we talk about the people how do you qualify an elite pact which is not based on any quantifiable ways? It means that only a few leaders have come together and agreed but what about the people on the ground, what are they saying? So perhaps we believe that coalitions are good for partnerships,' he said.
"They are an instrument of partnerships, strategic partnerships to achieve a certain objective, because you believe in those values but they are not just an opportunistic method ye (for) a few people sitting around saying yah saka imi muri kubva kupi saka (where are you coming from) let's talk …that is position oriented, it's not value oriented so for strategic reasons, people have to be very cautious."
The remarks come at a time when the talks of grand coalition of opposition political parties is currently the talk of the moment with some opposition parties seeing it as the only panacea to dislodge President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF from power.
Tsvangirai said people have to be careful on coalitions saying they have always believed that coalitions are not a pact of the elites.
'It's about the people and when we talk about the people how do you qualify an elite pact which is not based on any quantifiable ways? It means that only a few leaders have come together and agreed but what about the people on the ground, what are they saying? So perhaps we believe that coalitions are good for partnerships,' he said.
"They are an instrument of partnerships, strategic partnerships to achieve a certain objective, because you believe in those values but they are not just an opportunistic method ye (for) a few people sitting around saying yah saka imi muri kubva kupi saka (where are you coming from) let's talk …that is position oriented, it's not value oriented so for strategic reasons, people have to be very cautious."
The remarks come at a time when the talks of grand coalition of opposition political parties is currently the talk of the moment with some opposition parties seeing it as the only panacea to dislodge President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF from power.
Source - Byo24News
