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has made a U-turn over which documents to take to the Second All Stakeholders’ Conference.
President Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai last week agreed the national report would accompany the Copac Draft to the Second All Stakeholders’ Conference.
This would allow stakeholders a chance to compare the Draft with the people’s views.
Subsequently, the Zanu-PF Politburo endorsed the resolution.
The Select Committee is expected to meet sometime this week to come up with a way forward.
Copac co-chairperson Cde Paul Mangwana (Zanu-PF) said his party’s representatives in Copac would stand by the resolution of the principals.
“We are a disciplined party and we are going to go by what was agreed by the national leadership. There will be a meeting sometime this week to work out the way forward,” said Cde Mangwana.
But MDC-T spokesperson and Copac co-chairperson Mr Douglas Mwonzora yesterday made an about turn, saying the national report would only be produced after the completion of the process.
“A national report is a record for everything and it won’t be ready at the time of going to the conference. All the stakeholders will be equipped with all the necessary information to discuss the job at hand.
“The conference can never be reduced into a drafting committee,” he said.
MDC leader Professor Welshman Ncube said the three parties were supposed to be in agreement over which documents were to be taken to the stakeholders’ conference.
“It will be grossly inappropriate to comment on a position which has not yet been communicated officially to us. However, according to the GPA, parties will have to agree on all the logistics and formalities.
“If Zanu-PF is making a proposal of what should be taken then all the parties will have to discuss it,” said Prof Ncube. Copac national co-ordinator Mr Gift Marunda said his administration was still waiting for political guidance on the way forward.
“We are ready for the process. We have all the logistics in place. We have the current Draft in place and the list of all stakeholders.
“As for resources, Treasury and the partners are also waiting for guidance so that they can start disbursing the money once the way forward is clear,” Mr Marunda said.
He said the select committee would have to be guided by their political parties on what needed to be done. The impasse that stalled the constitution-making process came after the two MDC formations rejected amendments by Zanu-PF to the Copac draft.
The amendments were made after it was felt that Copac had deviated from the people’s views when it collated the data.
The MDC formations have already launched a “Yes Vote” campaign for the Draft, a development described by Zanu-PF as “premature” as stakeholders are still to deliberate on the contents of the Draft.
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