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George Maponga
Masvingo Bureau
Zanu PF Masvingo Province has lined up a series of inter-district meetings from today to rally support behind candidates who won during the recently held primary elections, as the revolutionary party gears up for a landslide victory in this year’s harmonised elections.
The ruling party has set sights on sweeping all the 26 National Assembly seats in the province, bettering the 2018 performance when it won 25 seats, except Masvingo Urban.
The inter-district meetings will, among other things, seek to further unite the party after the primary elections.
Zanu PF Masvingo provincial chairman Cde Rabson Mavhenyengwa yesterday said the meetings were important as they presented the party an opportunity to mould a united posture ahead of the start of fullscale campaigns for this year’s harmonised elections.
“We are starting (inter-district) meetings tomorrow (today) with Masvingo district and have invited all winning candidates in the just-ended primary elections from councillors to MPs and those who lost, so that they start working together for the good of the party Zanu PF,” said Cde Mavhenyengwa.
“We want them to work together because they are all Zanu PF; primary elections are now behind us and we are now looking ahead.
“We will be taking the opportunity to formally introduce the winning candidates to our structures because we now want to go into full-scale campaigning to make sure the party and our leader, President Mnangagwa, win resoundingly.”
Cde Mavhenyengwa emphasised that there was no loser or winner in the primary elections.
“There was no individual winner in the Zanu PF primaries, only the party emerged victorious and there can only be one person who is chosen at a time and next time, others will also come in and that is the spirit that we are trying to mould,” he said.
Cde Mavhenyengwa said the ruling party will win resoundingly this year, adding that after the impending inter-district meetings, work will shift to campaigning for President Mnangagwa and party candidates for the lower levels.
Zanu PF intends to increase its visibility and presence among the voters as the party angles for a thunderous victory in the elections expected in a few months.
Masvingo is reputed as a Zanu PF stronghold and is often dubbed a one-party state owing to the ruling party’s unparalleled dominance in the province’s political landscape.
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