Sengezo Tshabangu says former Citizens for Coalition Change (CCC) MPs who were recalled after the 23 August 2023 elections will not be allowed to participate in by-elections using the party’s name.
Tshabangu, who claims to be CCC interim secretary general, warned that he will block the former legislators’ participation in the by-elections scheduled for early February.
His lawyer Nqobani Sithole asserted that Tshabangu will not allow the Nelson Chamisa-aligned party candidates to use the CCC’s name during the by-elections. Sithole was quoted by Bulawayo24 as saying:
That road has been travelled before and nothing has changed. You can’t be expelled and still represent the same party that expelled you.
So, to us, it’s just a legal nullity. We know that what happened before is also going to happen again because there is a ruling which clearly states the legal penalties on this issue.
Those members are not going to be candidates in the next by-elections because they are no longer members of CCC.
Four out of the six Chamisa-aligned former CCC MPs filed their nomination papers under the CCC banner for the 03 February 2024 by-elections.
That was despite a recent High Court ruling which barred their colleagues from taking part in the 09 December by-elections on the party’s ticket.
Only Willard Madzimbamuto (Seke) and Stephen Chatiza (Goromonzi South) filed their nomination papers as independent candidates, while Amos Chibaya’s (Mkoba North) allegiance is not clear as he is the only recalled CCC MP who is not being challenged by another CCC candidate for the constituency.
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mampentsha · 1 year ago
Exiled former Cabinet Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has urged the MDC-Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa to take legal steps in protecting their party name.
Moyo who fled from the country in 2017 when the late former president Robert Mugabe was ousted from power posted on Twitter amid a wrangle between MDC Alliance and rival MDC-T led by Senator Douglas Mwonzora over the name. He said:
If the MDC-A has not yet taken the necessary legal steps to protect “Citizen Convergence for Change (CCC)”, as a name or whatever, they must run to do so after reading this!
MDC Alliance Secretary-General, Chalton Hwende, responded suggesting that the main issue to be addressed was the independence of the judiciary.
There have been reports that, like many other institutions, the judiciary had been captured by the executive. Said Hwende:
The biggest problem which needs to be addressed is the judiciary capture. ED has pliant judges that are being used to disregard legal steps which will ordinarily protect a political party. I will give an example of PDP a constitution and registered patents could not stop recalls
Moyo responded suggesting that Mwonzora was President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s tool to weaken the opposition. He said:
The constituents elements of the MDC-A, such as the PDP, were specifically targeted by the system upfront through its @DMwonzora strategy to destroy the MDC-A; as it was constituted for the 2018 elections. In 2023, Mnangagwa does not want to again face the MDC-A he faced in 2018!
MDC-T has, since the 2020 Supreme Court ruling on the MDC leadership crisis which started with the demise of founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai in 2018, been recalling MDC Alliance legislators and councillors for supporting Chamisa.
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@mampentsha · 1 year ago
Where is the link between CCC and MDC Alliance? MDC Alliance was appropriated by Cde. Mwonzora a long time ago.
What is Ncube doing at a Mwonzora function?
I suspect this is part of the ongoing CIO/FAZ attempt to sow seeds of discord and tear the CCC apart.
My first time to hear of such an online publication. CIO/FAZ creation?
😎 · 1 year ago
Inhau dzegore ripi idzi?
Do we still have MDC Alliance legislators?
