adminThe trio Mr Tsvangirai, Dr Simba Makoni (MKD) and Mr Semwayo made the announcement of their partnership dubbed the Coalition for Change at a press conference in Harare yesterday.
“The MDC-T, MKD and Zanu Ndonga have today agreed to enter into a coalition for change in order to offer solutions to the problems facing the country,” said Dr Makoni in a statement on behalf of the parties.
He alleged that the coming together of the parties had been necessitated by the “shared commitment to bring to an end the current hardships confronting Zimbabweans due to the failed policies of the past”.
But many doubted Mr Tsvangirai’s logic in entering into a coalition with people who are running almost one-man band outfits.
Dr Makoni has since lost the mystic that saw him garnering almost eight percent of the presidential vote in the 2008 elections, with the majority of senior members of his party having acrimonioulsy left.
The disgruntled members cited corruption in the allocation of resources by Dr Makoni and his lack of foresight as their major reason for leaving.
Mr Semwayo has been dishonoured by Zanu Ndonga as being a rebel who took advantage of that he was once the driver to the late party leader Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole to claim its leadership.
The three parties said they would form a coalition Government in the event that they win the elections, adding they would implement a programme called National Revival and Transformation Agenda that would be based on five pillars; good governance, economic revival, social transformation, devolution of power and international re-engagement.
They were, however, silent on illegal sanctions that research has shown cost the country US$42 billion since 2001.
Dr Makoni alleged that negotiations with the MDC and Dumiso Dabengwa’s Zapu were on-going.
But the so-called grand coalition of the parties failed to materialise last week after Professor Ncube and Dabengwa entered into a separate pact.
Issues to do with allocation of positions was said to be at the centre of the failure of the parties to reach an agreement.
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