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Zanu PF to delay elections so as to recover from possible defeat
07 Aug 2015 at 07:29hrs | Views
There reports that President Robert Mugabe and Zanu-PF are planning to postpone the elections from 2018 to 2021 to allow themselves to recover from possible defeat considering the fact that people must have lost trust on the party following its failure to provide the 2,2 million jobs it promised during the 2013 elections, job losses, and serious economic down turn during its current term of office.
Reports revealed that Zanu PF to postpone 2018 elections to 2021 and offer MDC-T President Morgan Tsvangirai a Vice Presidency post.
The Telescope reported that the country's ruling party, Zanu PF, is reportedly plotting to suspend the watershed 2018 Presidential and Parliamentary elections from 2018 to 2021, in a bid to buy political time to allow the fractured former liberation movement to repair and recover from feared collapse owing to intensified factionalism, and President Robert Mugabe's succession fight, which has already split the party between VP Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ousted predecessor Joice Mujuru.Party insiders reportedly revealed that, a coterie of state security officials together with Mnangagwa's inner circle in government and senior Zanu PF functionaries want the vice president to engineer the necessary legal provisions, to suspend presidential elections to 2021, to give the party room to reboot, while also negotiating a safe landing for military generals said to be nervous about the likelihood of being hauled before the International Criminal Court (ICC), for crimes against humanity and political abuses committed during Mugabe's three and a half decades in power.
"Confidential talks around the issue have already been made. The military brass is in favour of another coalition government, which they know is likely to be irresistible for Tsvangirai and his party. We are aware that VP Mnangagwa is reaching out to the opposition for the deal to be made, with the support of senior officials in the Politburo. The grand aim is to destroy Joice Mujuru's threats of forming an alliance with Tsvangirai in 2018, while using the MDC-T to canvass for economic recovery and foreign investment from it's Western allies," said a Zanu PF legislator from Mashonaland West.
"Tsvangirai might refuse a deal with Mnangagwa running to 2021, and instead opt to accept a role in a 2 year political arrangement (2016-2018) with Zanu PF, for his own strategic reasons to prepare the MDC for presidential elections in 2018 and work with us," said a former minister fired last year for supporting Mujuru.
Reports revealed that Zanu PF to postpone 2018 elections to 2021 and offer MDC-T President Morgan Tsvangirai a Vice Presidency post.
The Telescope reported that the country's ruling party, Zanu PF, is reportedly plotting to suspend the watershed 2018 Presidential and Parliamentary elections from 2018 to 2021, in a bid to buy political time to allow the fractured former liberation movement to repair and recover from feared collapse owing to intensified factionalism, and President Robert Mugabe's succession fight, which has already split the party between VP Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ousted predecessor Joice Mujuru.Party insiders reportedly revealed that, a coterie of state security officials together with Mnangagwa's inner circle in government and senior Zanu PF functionaries want the vice president to engineer the necessary legal provisions, to suspend presidential elections to 2021, to give the party room to reboot, while also negotiating a safe landing for military generals said to be nervous about the likelihood of being hauled before the International Criminal Court (ICC), for crimes against humanity and political abuses committed during Mugabe's three and a half decades in power.
"Confidential talks around the issue have already been made. The military brass is in favour of another coalition government, which they know is likely to be irresistible for Tsvangirai and his party. We are aware that VP Mnangagwa is reaching out to the opposition for the deal to be made, with the support of senior officials in the Politburo. The grand aim is to destroy Joice Mujuru's threats of forming an alliance with Tsvangirai in 2018, while using the MDC-T to canvass for economic recovery and foreign investment from it's Western allies," said a Zanu PF legislator from Mashonaland West.
"Tsvangirai might refuse a deal with Mnangagwa running to 2021, and instead opt to accept a role in a 2 year political arrangement (2016-2018) with Zanu PF, for his own strategic reasons to prepare the MDC for presidential elections in 2018 and work with us," said a former minister fired last year for supporting Mujuru.
Source - Byo24News
