Chamisa orders disengagement from Parly, councils

Zim Now Writer

Citizens Coalition for Change president Nelson Chamisa has ordered elected party officials in the National Assembly and in local authorities to disengage until the current impasse is resolved.

Addressing a press conference today in the wake of the recall of 15 CCC legislators mainly from Bulawayo, Chamisa said his party will employ constitutional means to solve the current crisis.

“When I say disengage, we have not said they have withdrawn but no business shall be transacted until remedy and justice is done through the mechanism that is available. In fact, we are putting on notice all key stakeholders in the country, including civil society, Sadc, AU, the EU and the international community, including the United Nations that we have a constitutional crisis in Zimbabwe and that we had a disputed election and we are going to run a campaign; diplomatically, politically in a peaceful manner, in a constitutional manner because there are remedies in the constitution and we are going to exhaust them.

https://zimbabwenow.co.zw/articles/6608/daggers-out-for-tendai-biti

Chamisa added that those who are saying he is weak and slow are wrong, arguing that they know what they are doing. “We understand the pulse of this nation … we know our capacity. Organising and mobilizing is not one of our weaknesses. We can mobilise so well and organise so well that we can even persuade Zanu PF members to be part of this legitimacy issue because poverty knows no political party. In fact any peaceful expression of discontent must not be a partisan one, it must also reach out to Zanu PF,” he said.

https://zimbabwenow.co.zw/articles/6593/breaking-mudenda-expels-15-ccc-mps

This comes as 15 CCC legislators have been recalled from Parliament following a letter from self-proclaimed secretary-general of the opposition party, Senzeso Tshabangu, claiming that they had ceased to be members of the party.

https://zimbabwenow.co.zw/articles/6598/turmoil-in-opposition-ccc-tshabangu-fires-chamisa

Following Tshabangu’s letter, Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda proceeded to officially notify the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission of the existence of vacancies in the recalled MPs’ constituencies.