"Wait for our congress. After the 26th, you'll see what's going to happen. We can't be having problems in the country when we have such competent people in leadership. Listen to the quality of debate, the MDC is rich. We want 2023 right now. We're not going to shirk," Chamisa said.
Mnangagwa and Zanu PF blatantly rigged last year’s elections. The whole election process was full of flaws, irregularities and illegitimacies it was a joke. ZEC failed to produce something as basic as a voters’ roll for Pete’s sake.
What part of Zanu PF rigged the elections, is Chamisa failing to understand!
If the country goes into elections without first implementing the reforms Zanu PF will rig the elections as readily as it has done in the past. The only reason the opposition has continue to participate in flawed and illegal elections is greed, as David Coltart readily admitted.
“The worst aspect for me about the failure to agree a coalition was that both MDCs couldn’t now do the obvious – withdraw from the (2013) elections,” confessed David Coltart in his book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of tyranny in Zimbabwe.
“The electoral process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw, which would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the distrust between the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither could withdraw for fear that the other would remain in the elections, winning seats and giving the process credibility.”
Coltart was a Senator and an MDC-N minister in the 2008 to 2013 GNU that failed to implement even one democratic reform in five years. SADC leaders begged, literally, Tsvangirai and the other MDC leaders NOT to take part in the 2013 elections without first implementing the reforms and their warning fell on deaf ears because of greed.
The people of Zimbabwe must now accept the political reality that has emerged this last decade: MDC leaders are no longer interested in demanding free, fair and credible elections. They will accept rigged elections as long as Zanu PF throws at them a few gravy train seats.
Indeed, Chamisa, his MDC A friends and the whole contingent of the opposition candidates who participated in last year’s elections have all accepted the parliamentary and presidential elections as free, fair and credible regardless of all the flaws and illegalities.
Chamisa has accepted the flawed and illegal process but would not accept Mnangagwa as the presidential winner of the feeble ground that he received more votes. Chamisa has failed to produce ALL the V11 forms, summary of the vote count from Polling Station, just as ZEC has failed to produce the V11 forms to support Mnangagwa vote tally.
If Mnangagwa had offered Chamisa a gravy train seat, the position of official opposition leader complete with the minister salary and allowance, Chamisa would have endorse Mnangagwa’s victory without further ado! So because Chamisa did not get a gravy train seat, the nation is being dragging into another election with no hope of the process will be free, fair and credible just because Chamisa did not get a gravy train seat he is after.
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