“OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa, who recently embarked on a regional diplomatic offensive to sound SADC leaders on Zimbabwe's worsening political and economic crisis, has pleaded with the bloc to heed his party's distress call,” reported Bulawayo 24.
The trouble with you, Chamisa, and your MDC A friends is that you do not listen to reason. Have you read and understood the EU Zimbabwe Election Observer Mission report?
“The final results as announced by the Electoral Commission contained numerous errors and lacked adequate traceability, transparency and verifiability. Finally, the restrictions on political freedoms, the excessive use of force by security forces and abuses of human rights in the post-election period undermined the corresponding positive aspects during the pre-election campaign. As such, many aspects of the 2018 elections in Zimbabwe failed to meet international standards,” stated the EU report.
The EU have refused to endorse Mnangagwa’s claim as the winner of last year’s elections because the election process “failed to meet international standards” because of the glaring flaws and illegalities stated above.
Mr Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF regime claim that they have the mandate to govern, that is just nonsense because the electoral process was flawed and illegal. The Zanu PF regime is illegitimate, period.
You, Mr Nelson Chamisa, claim that you won last year’s elections, the same elections with the same glaring flaws and illegalities. You had the opportunity to produce documentary evidence; the V11 forms summary of the vote count at each polling station, for example; to back you claim of the votes you received. You failed to produce the documentary evidence.
So you claim to be the winner of the presidential race is just as hollow and nonsensical as Mnangagwa’s claim.
SADC leaders have a headache of Mnangagwa claiming to be legitimate when they know that he is not. The regional leaders must know by now that the root cause of Zimbabwe’s worsening economic meltdown is the country being stuck with a corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship for 38 years and counting. If they thought endorsing Mnangagwa’s victory would solve anything they were wrong and the economic reality of the worsening economic situation say it all.
SADC leaders are scratching their heads as to how they are going to tell Mnangagwa and his junta that they are illegitimate and must step down. The leaders know as long as Zanu PF remains in power there is no hope of a meaningful economic recovery. None!
SADC leaders know Chamisa and his hare-brain claim to be the winner of the flawed and illegal election and proposal for interparty dialogue with Zanu PF is a waste of time. Even listening to Chamisa’s nonsensical claim will only encourage the upstart to believe he has a legitimate claim to power, only to tell that he and his MDC Alliance friend must step down too. Why bother listening to the upstart in the first place!
When it was clear that MDC leaders had failed to implement even one democratic reform at the end of the 2008 to 2013 GNU SADC leaders deserted MDC leaders in droves in disgust. Ever since MDC leaders have done nothing to redeem themselves, they did not even have the common sense to demand that ZEC must produce a verified voters’ roll before last year’s elections.
"We feel that there has been an attempt on the part of SADC, the chairperson of SADC, the President of Namibia [Hage Heingob], to listen to one side. We feel that in order to have a perfect picture of what is happening in Zimbabwe, you must have a perspective from both sides. They must also listen to the MDC and not just Zanu-PF," said Nelson Chamisa.
Chamisa said his party would continue to knock on the doors of African leaders and influential politicians to push the Zimbabwean agenda so that the political impasse is resolved.
The one thing Chamisa is after is a seat on the gravy train. He and his MDC Alliance friends are hoping that the country will end up with yet another GNU in which they will once again be allocated a ministerial position complete with the limo, generous salary and allowance, etc.
Chamisa had made implementing democratic one of his demands. This is just lip service. He and his MDC friends failed to get even one reform implemented in five years during the last GNU it is naïve to believe they will do so now!
A new GNU involving Zanu PF and MDC will be a repeat of the 2008 GNU, it will never implement any meaningful reforms. The political and economic situation in Zimbabwe is critical and it demands a solution and not another gimmick.
Zimbabwe needs an interim administration that will implement the democratic reforms fully and deliver free, fair and credible elections, guaranteed. Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF junta must step down to create the political space for the new administration.
As for Nelson Chamisa and his MDC friends, ignore them. They are corrupt, incompetent and sell-out. They are only fishing for gravy train seats and another chance to sell-out! Zimbabwe would not be in the political and economic mess we are in today if they had not wasted the many golden opportunities to implement the democratic reforms.
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"In several of the discussions, the events of last August and last January, as well as the recommendations contained in the Motlanthe commission of inquiry, were touched upon," Olkkonen said.
"It is clear that measures need to be taken in order to avoid a repetition of past tragic events."
Zimbabwe is in this tragic economic and political mess because of the 38 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF rule. Last July the party blatantly rigged the elections the EU Election Observers documented the rigging and condemned the elections is no uncertain terms and the EU parliament recommended that tough sanctions should be imposed on the regime. But the powers that be in the EU decided for selfish economic gain to do nothing.
What the EU is taking about here is threatening to slip the regime's wrist, a token, so it can be seen as putting pressure on Zanu PF to change.
The only pressure that is required here is to get Zanu PF to step down because we all know that the regime will never ever implement the democratic reforms to ensure free, fair and credible elections. If Zanu PF is allowed to remain in office until 2023, which is clearly what the EU is doing here, then the regime will rig that year's elections too! That is something the people of Zimbabwe cannot afford or tolerate!
We want free, fair and credible elections and for that we must get Zanu PF to step down - that is not negotiable!
China is reportedly planning to station an elite special force from it’s red army in Zimbabwe, as Beijing moves to crystalize military cooperation with Harare, amid growing fears that the Asian powerhouse has formally approved plans to commence construction of an underground military base in the country, Spotlight Zimbabwe, can exclusively reveal
There is no doubt that China has played a major role in prop up Zanu PF and helping the regime rig elections for the last 38 years. Getting the regime to step down following last year's rigged elections is not going to be easy but the longer the regime is allowed to stay in power the harder it is going to be.
There is no doubt that China has reaped great economic rewards from its 38 years close relationship with Zanu PF and the Asian nation would want to retain its influence on Zimbabwe. And with each Chinese soldier or military equipment they bring into the country they will be that much more certain of consolidating their hold on Zimbabwe.
We, the people of Zimbabwe, must redouble our efforts to get Zanu PF to step down NOW so we can implement the reforms and put the nation back on the democratic track or we are doomed!
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