MDC-T Vice President Nelson Chamisa has said that his party is definitely going to contest next year’s harmonised elections irrespective of the implementation of the electoral reforms. This is change to the policy that his party had adopted of not participating in elections without reforms since their loss in 2013 to Zanu-PF.
Said Chamisa:
We will not pull out; we cannot pull out of the election,
We are so determined to make sure that, whatever happens, whatever comes out of these elections is a credible result. It is Zimbabweans not the MDC who are calling for free and fair elections.
So, if they want to be an obstacle we simply, either negotiate with them to be out of the way or we dismantle them.
…This election is supposed to be an election to end all other elections because we have been having elections which have been disputed and, for once, we need a credible election so that we are able to produce an outcome that will not breed disputes or antagonisms post elections.
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