After the new constitution is assented and becomes the new supreme law of the law; Mugabe as State President will have the power and authority to name the date for holding fresh elections without having to consult Tsvangirai. The new constitution will supersede the Lancaster House constitution and it is the later that recognizes the GPA.
Zanu PF will be pushing for the acceptance and application of the new Copac constitution in word and in spirit from now on; contrary to MDC and SA’s repeated calls for more reforms to be implemented.
South Africa’s deputy foreign minister Ebrahim Ebrahim described MDC’s calls for more reforms as “legitimate. ZANU PF strategist and politburo member Jonathan Moyo weighed in dismissing the remark as “outrageous and offensive”.
“Ebrahim and his lot should know that it is not Zanu PF that says elections are due in Zimbabwe when the life of Parliament automatically ends on June 29 but the Constitution of the Republic of Zimbabwe," Jonathan Moyo said. And that is only the warning shots to SA!
MDC should have carefully considered what they were doing before approving the Copac constitution, ask the people to approve it in the referendum and then having it passed "unanimously" in both houses of parliament. They did not because they are an incompetent lot. They are always closing the stable long after the horse has bolted!
The trouble with you MDC supporters is that they have their heads buried in the sand and refuse to see the reality that PM Tsvangirai is incompetent and is leading the nation into a deadly trap. They are no different from the Zanu PF supporters in that regard except for the very subtle difference that Zanu PF supporters have their heads buried in Mugabe's backside!
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Zanu PF spokesperson Rugare Gumbo said: “We have implemented the GPA what else do they want? We have passed the constitution. Parliament has passed it and Senate will do the same tomorrow so what else should we implement?
“Let us not spend a lot of time discussing issues that are not important. Our security sector is the best in Africa. Have you ever talked about reforming the security sector in South Africa or Tanzania?”
“I believe all our soldiers, all our policemen are sworn in to uphold the constitutional provisions.... It’s unfortunate that they are sending a message that they will not respect the outcome of the elections and that they will subvert the will of the people,” said Tsvangirai.
That was PM Tsvangirai’s reply to being called a “sell-out” and “malcontent”. His attempt to bribe and appease the security chiefs has failed. What else can he say!
@ Yepec
Mr Brain Dead, you really are brain dead!
These idiots seek not to implement any reforms, align laws, etc; God knows they have had ample time and opportunity to do all these things and more and yet nothing of note has been done. ( I do not consider glob trotting and chasing women of ill repute an accomplishment.)
What they seek is what they have sought all these last five years, to maximize they fortunes and stay in public office at public expense. They know the longest they could legal stay in office was five years and have known this all the time. Thank God, the five years are finally up on 29 June 2013.
What the rascals are seeking now is to extend this parliament by hook and by crook beyond its legal life!
They were supposed to draft the new constitution in 18 months; they took four and half years!
The Copac rubbish was accepted by all the three parties in January 2013 and getting it approved by the people was "a formality", PM Tsvangirai said. Why then did the idiots not start working on framing all the laws to align the Electoral Act, Security Act, etc. to the new constitution. They did not have to wait for referendum results, etc. to do this? It is not as if they doing anything else - of note! (More glob trotting and endless bickering does not count as anything of note!)
The country does not need the new constitution to be assented to start voter registration!
These are all feeble excuses to extend the life of this parliament beyond the statutory five years. I say what Oliver Cromwell said of the equally useless “rump” parliament of his day: “You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately …… Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!”
@ Jena
You are asking the wrong person and the wrong question too. You should asking PM Tsvang-irai and his MDC friends why they did not have the reforms implemented all these last five years if they really wanted the reforms? You should know the answer to that question your-self, if you have any grey stuff between your ears!
By getting a weak and feeble constitution approved Tsvangirai slammed the door shut to any more reforms; the idiot should have known that and he was warned but as usual ignored the warning.
I hate everything Zanu PF stands for and is doing; still, I cannot deny that Moyo is right on this one because he is right!
There is a lesson we should and must learn from all this reform business: we should have never entrusted this task to an incompetent idiot like Tsvangirai. It is important that blind MDC loyalists like you learn that lesson.
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