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Jonathan Moyo speaks on Chamisa-Mnangagwa GNU
20 Jun 2019 at 13:02hrs | Views
Exiled former cabinet Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has called for negotiations between ZANU PF and MDC which must lead to a Government of National Unity.
Professor Moyo who engaged in a frenzied Twitter thread on Thursday said, "A GNU is a special type of coalition govt common in Africa to avoid CONFLICT. Elsewhere, elections with no outright winner produce coalition governments. Not in Zimbabwe. We get DISPUTED elections which necessitate a GNU to resolve a CONFLICT. The UK has a coalition government, not called a GNU!"
Moyo further said the disputed 2018 elections necessitate the country has a GNU.
"A GNU is necessitated by an inconclusive or disputed poll. The 2009 GNU was necessitated by the fact that ZANU PF had 99 out 210 parliamentary seats. Today a GNU is necessitated by the fact that ZANU PF lost and stole 2018 presidential poll from the MDCALLIANCE."
Moyo said it is folly that ZANU PF says it will not engage in a negotiation with MDC.
"Ignoramuses say ZANU PF can't negotiate with MDC because it has two thirds majority. Nonsense, the 2009 GNU negotiations started after SADC appointed Mbeki to mediate in Zimbabwe on 29 March 2007 due to Army and Police brutality when ZANU PF had a majority of two thirds in Parliament!"
ZANU PF members have insisted that they will not agree to any coalition government with MDC.
Professor Moyo who engaged in a frenzied Twitter thread on Thursday said, "A GNU is a special type of coalition govt common in Africa to avoid CONFLICT. Elsewhere, elections with no outright winner produce coalition governments. Not in Zimbabwe. We get DISPUTED elections which necessitate a GNU to resolve a CONFLICT. The UK has a coalition government, not called a GNU!"
Moyo further said the disputed 2018 elections necessitate the country has a GNU.
"A GNU is necessitated by an inconclusive or disputed poll. The 2009 GNU was necessitated by the fact that ZANU PF had 99 out 210 parliamentary seats. Today a GNU is necessitated by the fact that ZANU PF lost and stole 2018 presidential poll from the MDCALLIANCE."
"Ignoramuses say ZANU PF can't negotiate with MDC because it has two thirds majority. Nonsense, the 2009 GNU negotiations started after SADC appointed Mbeki to mediate in Zimbabwe on 29 March 2007 due to Army and Police brutality when ZANU PF had a majority of two thirds in Parliament!"
ZANU PF members have insisted that they will not agree to any coalition government with MDC.
Source - Byo24News
