A political analyst has said that Sengezo Tshabangu, the de facto leader of the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), has completed his assignment for ZANU-PF by dismantling the opposition in Parliament and helping the ruling party secure a two-thirds majority in the National Assembly to pass Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 (CAB 3).
The CCC says it is not opposed to CAB 3 but wants revisions that prioritise national consensus over partisan interests.
Speaking to NewsDay, political analyst Tendai Mbofana said Tshabangu had reached the final stage of his assignment.
He argued that Tshabangu’s systematic recall of elected opposition MPs and councillors was a calculated strategy to give ZANU PF the two-thirds parliamentary supermajority needed to amend the Constitution.
Mbofana further argued that Tshabangu’s defence of CAB 3, under the guise of an extended transitional framework, showed he was following a ZANU PF script designed to suspend democratic elections.
“The announcement that Sengezo Tshabangu and his faction are open to supporting CAB 3 confirms what many of us have argued from the very beginning,” he said.
“His actions since late 2023, specifically the systematic recall of elected Citizens Coalition for Change Members of Parliament and councillors, were never about correcting internal party anomalies.
“They were a calculated strategy to dismantle the legitimate opposition and deliver the two-thirds parliamentary supermajority that ZANU PF required to alter the supreme law of the country.”
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