Former Vice-President and National People’s Party leader, Joice Mujuru has hinted that MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai will face President Robert Mugabe in next year’s election as the candidate for all opposition parties that have signed up to the proposed grand coalition.
Said Mujuru:
We agreed with the MDC-T to sit down and discuss. We signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Tsvangirai, which has a roadmap that we agreed on which outlines the strategy. We also tabled our differences and resolved them. We agreed that one opposition presidential candidate, representing all parties, will stand against Mugabe. We also agreed on the leader of the coalition, the qualities, the expectations of that person before and after the polls. That person should be a unifier, someone who does not backtrack or sell out and should carry the ideals of the coalition. And that person should have the confidence of the majority. We said the MDC-T is better at mobilising people. There is no other party, apart from NPP and the MDC-T, that can mobilise a lot of people apart from Zanu PF itself. There are a lot of parties, but some of the parties were created by some handlers in the government to cultivate a false sense of multi-party democracy, so whatever those parties do, they want to please their boss (Mugabe). We know a coalition is the best to stop Zanu PF from rigging. If we go into the polls fragmented, as the opposition, we give leeway to Zanu PF tricks.
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