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Innocent Ruwende Senior Reporter
ZANU-PF legislators have chosen Cde Mabel Chinomona for the position of deputy speaker of the National Assembly, Cde Chen Chimutengwende as the deputy president of the Senate and Cde Mandy Chimene as deputy chief whip for the National Assembly. Apart from retaining Parliamentary chief whip Cde Joram Gumbo, the Politburo decision to recommend that chairperson of the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission Cde Jacob Mudenda becomes the new Speaker of the National Assembly and that Cde Edna Madzongwe retains her post as the president of the Senate was endorsed by the Zanu PF caucus.
Cde Tambudzani Mohadi was given the nod to retain her post as Zanu-PF Whip in the Senate.
Cde Chinomona was nominated together with Cde Beater Nyamupinga who nominated herself.
Cde Nyamupinga lost after no one seconded her nomination.
In the post of deputy Senate president Cde Chimutengwende was nominated together with Cde Josiah Hungwe.
Cde Chimutengwende prevailed after Cde Hungwe’s nomination was not seconded.
For the deputy chief whip of the National Assembly Cde Chimene was not opposed.
Zanu PF secretary for administration Cde Didymus Mutasa urged the elected legislators to represent the party’s ideology in Parliament.
“You are sent to parliament by the party whatever you do should represent the party’s thinking,” he said.
He said there should be continued interaction between the party’s leadership and the elected MPs.
The party’s deputy secretary for legal affairs Cde Patrick Chinamasa told the MPs-elect that the MDC-T had communicated that they wanted to challenge results in 95 constituencies before climbing down to only 35 petitions.
“These petitions are meant to harass you. The legal team has engaged a team of lawyers who will deal with all the petitions,” he said.
He said to date they had received 17 petitions urging MP’s who receive petitions not to ignore them as they would get default judgments.
Cde Chinamasa said most of the challengers were claiming that Zanu PF bribed voters by giving them party regalia.
He said giving people party regalia was not tantamount to vote buying adding that 30 000 members of JOMIC comprising 10 000 from each party had described the elections as free and fair.
After the caucus which was also attended by Vice President Joice Mujuru, Zanu PF national chairman Cde Simon Khaya Moyo, Zanu PF Secretary for Legal Affairs Cde Emmerson Mnangagwa and national commissariat Cde Webster Shamu the MPs went to Parliament for an induction.
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