MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday teased the new party name and colours as the opposition party races against time ahead of pending by-elections and 2023 polls.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday said he would
proclaim a date for the impending by-elections in early January.
The MDC-T led by Douglas Mwonzora has said it will claim
the MDC Alliance as its name in elections, leaving Chamisa’s party without a name.
So far Chamisa has lost the party name, headquarters and provincial
offices including state funding under the Political Parties (Finance) Act to
Mwonzora.
“Colour is language, colour lights up the environment and
illuminates the atmosphere. The future is exciting. We must be different but
which colour is the future?” Chamisa tweeted yesterday while holding yellow,
orange and blue umbrella umbrellas.
The MDC Alliance uses red as its traditional colours, but
with the Mwonzora outfit having taken over, the main opposition outfit finds
itself in a precarious position.
Chamisa was not answering his mobile phone to clarify the
position.
Responding to Chamisa’s statement, party secretary general
Chalton Hwende said curtly: “Exciting times ahead.”
But the MDC T yesterday said the party would not allow
Chamisa to use the MDC Alliance tag.
“We are the Alliance principals and we are unambiguous. We
are a constitutional democracy and they may not have all their prayers answered
through unconstitutional means,” MDC-T spokesperson Witness Dube said.
“They said they (MDC Alliance) will have Harvest House
(party headquarters) we had it. They said they will have the funds under the
Political Parties (Finance) Act, we got that. They said they will have to
recall our MPs, we recalled errant members of our party and we are not moved by
any words now. The time of reckoning is now.”
A few months ago, there were reports that Chamisa will
adopt Citizens Convergence for Change (CCC) as the new party name.
But in a letter addressed to the Zimbabwe Electoral
Commission dated September 20, an unknown politician Farai Zhou claimed that
CCC belonged to his group and named a known Zanu PF functionary Varaidzo
Musungo as the party’s presidential candidate.
He also said prominent Bulawayo lawyer Tavengwa Hara was
the legal representative of the party. Hara distanced himself from CCC. Newsday
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