Can a flawed and illegal election process produce a legitimate and
credible result? This is the political conundrum, the squared circle,
Nelson Chamisa and his MDC Alliance have failed to comprehend and thus make
complete fools of themselves each time the open their mouth!
The 2018 elections were flawed and illegal allowing Zanu PF to blatantly
rig the vote. Three million Zimbabweans in the diaspora were denied the
opportunity to register and to vote in the July 2018 elections.
During his UN General Assembly trip in September 2018, just two months
after the vote, President Mnangagwa admitted that government will allow
Zimbabweans in the diaspora to vote next elections. He did not explain why they
were denied the vote in 2018 given this issue was raised before the 2013
elections!
By failing to produce a verified voters’ roll and V11 forms (summary of
the vote count) for all polling stations, both are legal requirements, it was
impossible to verify who was on the voters’ roll, who voted and how many times,
etc. and it was impossible to trace where the vote allotted to each candidate
came from.
"2019 is the year of rolling mass action against the illegal regime
of Emmerson Mnangagwa." MDC Alliance Deputy Treasurer General Charlton
Hwende said. "We voted for Nelson Chamisa and we must be prepared like the
thousands of gallant Liberation struggle heroes to die defending our right to
chose the President of our Choice.”
“We”; who is we? We have just noted above that 3 million Zimbabweans in
the diaspora were denied the vote which is more than the 2.6 million Chamisa
claims voted for him. Even in his own Con-Court challenge of the result,
Chamisa failed to produce all the V11 forms to account for the 2.6 million
votes he is claiming. So no one can trace where the 2.6 million votes came from
much less who these people are since there is no verified voters’ roll.
Nelson Chamisa and his MDC Alliance friends had many golden
opportunities, especially during the 2008 to 2013 GNU, to implement the
democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections. The party
wasted them all for various reasons one of which was the belief they would win
the elections regardless of Zanu PF’s vote rigging shenanigans. It has turned
out they under estimated the vote rigging shenanigans.
Even if MDC had won these flawed and illegal in 2013 and/or the 2018
elections, this would not have solved the nation’s problem of rigged elections
as Zanu PF or indeed MDC leaders themselves would have used the carte blanche
vote rigging powers soon or latter. The idea of implementing the democratic
reforms was to ensure free, fair and credible elections and MDC’s position that
it does not matter whether the elections are free and fair as long as they win
is no different from Zanu PF’s own position.
Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF junta fought the war of independence to
remove the white colonial oppressors but only to take their place as the
nation’s new oppressors. Nelson Chamisa want the nation to fight to remove the
illegitimate Mnangagwa because he rigged the elections but only to take his
place as the next illegitimate president. Surely, the people of Zimbabwe
deserve better than this.
Yes Mnangagwa and his junta blatantly rigged the 30 July 2018 elections
and therefore they do not have the democratic mandate of the people to govern.
They must step down.
We are not going to force Zanu PF to step down only for MDC Alliance to
take over, no. Chamisa and his MDC Alliance have no legal basis to govern since
the last elections was so flawed and illegal it is nonsensical to declare
anyone the winner, especially when all the contestants knew the process was
flawed and illegal but participated regardless. Chamisa and his MDC Alliance
must step aside.
The people of Zimbabwe must be allowed the time and space to appoint an
interim administration that will be tasked to implement all the democratic reforms
to guarantee free, fair and credible elections not just next time but for
generations to come. All attempts by both Zanu PF and MDC Alliance members to
hang on to power must be seen for what it is - holding the nation to ransom.
This will not be tolerated!
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