MDC leaders sold-out during the GNU by
failing to implement even one meaningful reform. If I have said that once, I
have said it a million times and a million times again. To those millions of
doubting Thomas who would not believe me, now you can believe it from the horse’s
own mouth.
“The opposition MDC went into the
Government of National Unity (GNU) between 2009-2013 without a plan and failed
to utilise the opportunity, new party leader Nelson Chamisa has admitted,”
reported New Zimbabwe.
“While the MDC has consistently claimed
glory for stabilising the economy, after then party leader Morgan Tsvangirai
joined arch-foe and ex-President Robert Mugabe following inconclusive elections
in 2008, Chamisa said the opposition went into government “sat and ate.”
“Chamisa was speaking at the launch of
the opposition’s latest policy blue-print titled Return to Economic Recovery,
Legitimacy, Openness and Democracy (RELOAD) in Harare vowing never to repeat
the same mistake.
“We got in the inclusive government and
just sat there, spent five years in there. We came out without doing anything.
“We will not do that, dialogue must have
timelines that are very clear, the international community must tick us, mark
us on the boxes,” said Chamisa.
To the naïve and gullible who would want to believe Chamisa;
please ask yourselves how many times MDC officials have said there would be no
elections without reforms!
“(President) Mnangagwa wants to get into office through the
window abusing conditions for elections. That’s why I told him that I will not
accept what they used to do to Tsvangirai who was robbed with his eyes open. As
long as we don’t agree on the issue of ballot paper, the election will not be
done,” said Mr Chamisa in June 2018, for example.
“We will push until it’s done. What I am saying is as long
as we have not agreed on who prints the ballot paper, where it will be printed
and how the security around the ballot paper will be like, there will be no
election in Zimbabwe.”
Zanu PF rigged last year’s elections, it is illegitimate and
MDC’s RELOAD plan is only meant to give Zanu PF legitimacy by the back door
whilst giving MDC the chance to get back on the gravy train so they can
continue to “sit and eat” from where they left off at the end of the last GNU.
If we are serious about getting the democratic reforms implemented,
finally, then we must get an independent body to implement them. Zanu PF has to
step down to create the political space for the independent body. This is the
only viable way forward!
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