Zanu-PF speaks on elections

process currently under-way.
The revolutionary party also said it would not tolerate outsiders to interrogate the country’s security chiefs on developments in the country as envisaged by MDC-T and its Western ba-ckers.

Speaking to journalists after a Politburo meeting in Harare yesterday, Zanu-PF national spokesperson Cde Rugare Gumbo, said the party recei-ved a report on the election roadmap from its negotiator to the inter-party talks Cde Patrick Chinamasa detailing areas that were agreed upon and those being disputed.

He said the party’s position had not changed saying: “There is no change to the position taken by the party. We have realigned the position with what Cde Chinamasa has and what he has said is now water under the bridge.

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“We want to speed these processes and there is no reason why they can take three years (to complete making the constitution) yet we have agreed on two years.”
He said MDC-T was playing political games to delay elections as evidenced by its withdrawal from Copac activities yesterday.

Cde Gumbo said the three Copac co-chairpersons had agreed on everything regarding the handling of data collated from the people during outreach programme and it was baffling why MDC-T was making a U-turn.

He said if MDC-T resolved to pull out of the process completely, they would notify the facilitator and continue with the other MDC formation and civic organisations.

On the proposed meeting between President Jacob Zuma’s Sadc facilitation team to Zimbabwe’s inter-party dialogue with the service chiefs, Cde Gumbo said such a thing had not happened in any country in the world and would not be tolerated.

“Where on earth have you seen people coming to see security forces of another country? It is nonsensical,” he said.
His remarks followed online reports claiming that President Zuma’s facilitation team to Zimbabwe’s inter-party dialogue wanted to meet security chiefs ahead of general elections.

Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa – who is also a Politburo member – yesterday said he was not aware of such a meeting, adding that no one had approached his ministry over that matter.
“We have not been approached by anyone. We can always reply to whoever comes to us but at the moment nobody has approached us,” he said.

Cde Gumbo said the MDC-T had nothing to offer to the electorate and was trying to evade elections by hook and crook.
“They (MDC-T) have no agenda. They are ideologically bankrupt and they have nothing to offer to the people.

“They say they are a party of excellence and if they are really a party of excellence why are they afraid of the masses?” he asked.
He said Zanu-PF had a clear agenda of economic empowerment and defending the country’s sovereignty but the MDC-T did not have any home grown solution to challenges besetting the country’s economy.

“Zanu-PF talks of land reform and empowerment and the MDC-T does not have anything. They can’t even give civil servants anything. President Mugabe said civil servants salaries will be increased next month but the MDC-T is against the increase,” he said.