The MDC led by Nelson Chamisa has resolved to maintain
pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government by mobilising its
structures through regular rallies after the government blocked its planned
protests.
Police last month blocked several MDC protests throughout
the country citing security concerns.
The MDC’s top leadership met on Friday to restrategise and
a communiqué to the party’s structures revealed that the opposition was not
backing down on its
confrontational stance.
“The party has resolved that the MDC will restore the
people’s vote through constitutional and peaceful actions as informed by our
goal to ‘win elections, attain state power through democratic, non-violent,
constitutional means, and create a just, equitable, sustainable democratic
Zimbabwe’,” wrote MDC secretary-general Chalton Hwende after the party’s
national executive committee met in Harare.
“The party will endeavour to return the country to
legitimacy, political stability and economic prosperity as informed by its five
stages outlined in our transitional blueprint Reload.
“[We will] put political pressure through political
advocacy and actions, genuine dialogue, transitional mechanism agreed and put
in place, free and fair elections and prosperous
Zimbabwe.”
Hwende said the party would roll out rallies throughout the
country, which would be cascaded to the village level.
“To ensure that this happens, the party resolved to carry
out Reload rallies that will be cascaded down to villages throughout the
country,” he added.
“We maintain and sustain our peaceful engagement that will
allow all Zimbabweans to participate in their quest to free themselves from the
albatross of the current regime.
“These actions must be people-driven and promote unity on
common grievances.”
Chamisa rejected Mnangagwa’s 2018 election victory saying
the polls were rigged. The Constitutional Court, however, threw out the
opposition leader’s petition challenging the election result.
Hwende said the MDC would continue challenging Mnangagwa’s
legitimacy.
“The party, motivated by its social democracy ideology,
remains concerned by the national legitimacy crisis and will continue to put
pressure on the regime to ensure that the
challenges — corruption, unemployment, power and fuel
shortages, lack of genuine political and institutional reforms, high cost of
living and unaffordable prices of basic commodities
— be dealt with once and for all,” he said.
On September 14 the MDC said it would hold its 20th
anniversary celebrations at Rufaro Stadium, which could be the largest
gathering by the opposition party this year. Standard
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