The MDC youth wing says it is targetting to win 66% of the votes in the upcoming 2023 general elections.
Newly-elected youth chairperson, Albert Chidhakwa, told journalists on Sunday in Harare that they will encourage the youths to register to vote. Said Chidhakwa:
We are preparing for next year’s polls. We do not have time to waste, we will mobilise young people in all provinces.
We will be doing mass mobilisations to make sure everyone joins our party and is registered to vote.
As the youths, we are campaigning for our president who is none other than Douglas Togarasei Mwonzora and we are targeting 66% of the votes.
Last month, party leader Douglas Mwonzora was controversially nominated as the party’s sole presidential candidate for the 2023 elections.
Another Mwonzora supporter, told NewZimbabwe.com, that unlike the MDC’s main rival, CCC, the party was able to successfully hold an ordinary congress. He said:
No one was stopped from contesting Mwonzora. Every position was open to everybody regardless of age or gender. Dhagi ndochibaba hapana zvatingaite ndozviripo.
After the death or incapacitation of the President, we go for an early ordinary congress.
Now, this is a full congress which is done after every five years, unlike CCC. They do not have a congress, constitution, or structures, so it is different from CCC and ZANU PF.
I know this because I am a Zimbabwean politician, I follow politics and eat politics every day.
The MDC held its 5th elective congress at City Sports Centre in Harare on Sunday. | NewZimbabwe.com