Opinion / Columnist
We will not stop vulture-opposition contesting flawed elections - they are vulture!
25 Jan 2017 at 16:32hrs | Views
Boycotting the flawed elections is the only thing that makes sense!
"Already this is under threat with Mujuru declaring that reforms or no reforms her party will contest in the 2018 polls. She has a willing compatriot in Madhuku and other obscure political parties," wrote Muzvondiwa Mago.
"This is self-defeating and only plays into Zanu PF hands because as long as opposition parties participate in these flawed elections Zanu PF will not change the electoral playing field. Mujuru's stance on elections all but confirms that she still serves that she is still Zanu PF and will always serve their interests."
"My last plea to all political analysts is please call a spade a spade, Zanu PF has a huge unfair advantage which can't be used as a measure of its support. The fact is Zimbabwe's electoral space needs overhauling and its sad that political analysts chose to ignore this fact and rather dwell in awe at Zanu PF's flawed victory margin."
A breath of fresh air after a life-time of choking tear gas fumes of propaganda from Zanu PF and the skunk's stink of feeble excuses for doing nothing from the opposition!
Of course, Mai Mujuru, Lovemore Madhuku, Morgan Tsvangirai (the MDC factions have been boycotting by-elections but they have already said they will contest the national elections) and all the other opposition minions all know that, with no reforms in place, Zanu PF will rig the next elections. They also know that by participating they are giving the flawed elections some modicum of democratic legitimacy, this is something Zanu PF needs desperately.
So why is the opposition camp is crowded to full capacity and more if they know the elections will be rigged, a stranger might ask? Zanu PF has since learnt that a clean sweep of all the seats will damage its claim that the elections were free, fair and credible and so the party has always allowed the opposition to win some seats. It is these throw away seats that the opposition parties are after!
Winning the few opposition seats has become more important to the opposition than ending the Zanu PF dictatorship and the economic misery and death the regime has brought to this nation. The opposition parties will all swear that they care about democracy and free and fair elections and will talk about the National Electoral Reform Agenda (NERA) as proof of their democratic credentials. Didymus Mutasa is a senior NERA official, yet he, like everyone else in the opposition, cannot give details of even one reform.
We have as much chance of stopping Mujuru, Madhuku, Tsvangirai, etc., etc. contesting next year's elections than stopping circling vultures from landing on a kill! We, the people, must tell these vultures, we now KNOW what dirty game they are playing and that the game is up.
We cannot stop the vulture-opposition from contesting the flawed elections but what we can and should do is expose them for whom they really are - treacherous vultures!
"Already this is under threat with Mujuru declaring that reforms or no reforms her party will contest in the 2018 polls. She has a willing compatriot in Madhuku and other obscure political parties," wrote Muzvondiwa Mago.
"This is self-defeating and only plays into Zanu PF hands because as long as opposition parties participate in these flawed elections Zanu PF will not change the electoral playing field. Mujuru's stance on elections all but confirms that she still serves that she is still Zanu PF and will always serve their interests."
"My last plea to all political analysts is please call a spade a spade, Zanu PF has a huge unfair advantage which can't be used as a measure of its support. The fact is Zimbabwe's electoral space needs overhauling and its sad that political analysts chose to ignore this fact and rather dwell in awe at Zanu PF's flawed victory margin."
A breath of fresh air after a life-time of choking tear gas fumes of propaganda from Zanu PF and the skunk's stink of feeble excuses for doing nothing from the opposition!
Of course, Mai Mujuru, Lovemore Madhuku, Morgan Tsvangirai (the MDC factions have been boycotting by-elections but they have already said they will contest the national elections) and all the other opposition minions all know that, with no reforms in place, Zanu PF will rig the next elections. They also know that by participating they are giving the flawed elections some modicum of democratic legitimacy, this is something Zanu PF needs desperately.
So why is the opposition camp is crowded to full capacity and more if they know the elections will be rigged, a stranger might ask? Zanu PF has since learnt that a clean sweep of all the seats will damage its claim that the elections were free, fair and credible and so the party has always allowed the opposition to win some seats. It is these throw away seats that the opposition parties are after!
Winning the few opposition seats has become more important to the opposition than ending the Zanu PF dictatorship and the economic misery and death the regime has brought to this nation. The opposition parties will all swear that they care about democracy and free and fair elections and will talk about the National Electoral Reform Agenda (NERA) as proof of their democratic credentials. Didymus Mutasa is a senior NERA official, yet he, like everyone else in the opposition, cannot give details of even one reform.
We have as much chance of stopping Mujuru, Madhuku, Tsvangirai, etc., etc. contesting next year's elections than stopping circling vultures from landing on a kill! We, the people, must tell these vultures, we now KNOW what dirty game they are playing and that the game is up.
We cannot stop the vulture-opposition from contesting the flawed elections but what we can and should do is expose them for whom they really are - treacherous vultures!
Source - Nomusa Garikai
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