Movement for Democratic Change is always willing to collaborate and synergise with all other democratic political parties, big or small, a senior party official has said.
In a statement Obert Gutu, who is the party spokesperson said that the party is ready to join other opposition parties.
“The MDC is going to forge sustainable and workable alliances with all organisations that cherish the creation of a new Zimbabwe that will abhor autocracy, corruption and dictatorship.
“ We are pleased to note that genuine war veterans, with solid and impeccable liberation war credentials, have, of late, openly shown their appreciation and indeed, respect for the role that President Morgan Tsvangirai and the MDC have played over the past seventeen years, in peacefully and bravely confronting the brutal Zanu PF regime,” said Gutu.
The MDC spokesperson also said that they will continue lobbying for electoral reforms, which he says is the only way to stop Zanu PF from ‘rigging elections’.
“MDC strongly believes that without electoral reforms being adopted, the Zanu PF regime will always continue to rig elections and thus, deny the people of Zimbabwe their constitutional right to choose a government of their choice in a free and fair election,” accusingly said Gutu.
He added, “The main challenge remains that Zanu PF regime has routinely rigged and manipulated the electoral system. This is the major reason why, under the NERA trajectory, the MDC has joined more than seventeen other opposition political parties in fighting for the adoption of electoral reforms before Election 2018.”
The country’s main opposition which has always played second fiddle to Zanu PF said they still hope to win the 2018 elections.
“Indeed, President Morgan Tsvangirai is the only opposition political party leader who managed to beat Robert Mugabe in a Presidential election in March 2008.Mugabe himself, in a rare feat of candour and honestly, recently disclosed that President Morgan Tsvangirai had won the March 2008 Presidential election by more than 73%.
“The MDC is convinced that all Zimbabweans deserve to live in a country that is peaceful and that is governed according to strict democratic principles where respect for the rule of law is sacrosanct. In this context, therefore, it is quite clear that the MDC has, against all odds, always possessed the necessary political credentials and intellectual stamina to establish a new people – centred government in Zimbabwe,” said Gutu.
