{"id":23332,"date":"2020-05-19T22:13:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T20:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=23332"},"modified":"2020-05-19T22:13:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T20:13:28","slug":"mudzuri-urges-mwonzora-to-stop-recalling-mdc-alliance-mps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mudzuri-urges-mwonzora-to-stop-recalling-mdc-alliance-mps","title":{"rendered":"Mudzuri Urges Mwonzora To Stop Recalling MDC Alliance MPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior MDC-T official Elias Mudzuri has chided reinstated secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora for going on the rampage, recalling MDC Alliance MPs aligned to Nelson Chamisa.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with NewZimbabwe.com, Mudzuri said the bloodbath should stop to allow opposition MPs to do their work of holding the government to account. Said Mudzuri:<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t enjoy anyone getting out of Parliament. I don\u2019t want that to happen, as a senior member, those people have worked in their own different ways whether they went there (Parliament) by hook or crook but they are there representing the MDC.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t want to withdraw parliamentarians. Why should we want them not to work for the people? Their job is within their constituencies.<\/p>\n<p>Right now it\u2019s the time of COVID-19 and I have said we don\u2019t want to recall any parliamentarians\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Mwonzora recalled four senior MDC Alliance MPs, Charlton Hwende, Prosper Mutseyami, Lilian Timveous and Tabitha Khumalo, saying they were no longer MDC-T MPs.<\/p>\n<p>Mwonzora made the move after the Supreme Court had restored the stewardship of the party into the hands of ex-vice president Thokozani Khupe and the MDC (then MDC-T) executive elected at a 2014 party congress<\/p>\n<p>Reports suggest that Mwonzora is going to recall six more MPs in his bid to force the remaining MDC Alliance legislators to defect from Chamisa and join the MDC-T party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior MDC-T official Elias Mudzuri has chided reinstated secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora for going on the rampage, recalling MDC Alliance MPs aligned to Nelson Chamisa. In an interview with NewZimbabwe.com, Mudzuri said the bloodbath should stop to allow opposition MPs to do their work of holding the government to account. Said Mudzuri: I don\u2019t enjoy anyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":3080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[88,559],"class_list":["post-23332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-mdc","tag-mudzuri"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mudzuri Urges Mwonzora To Stop Recalling MDC Alliance MPs - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Senior MDC-T official Elias Mudzuri has chided reinstated secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora for going on the rampage, recalling MDC Alliance\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mudzuri-urges-mwonzora-to-stop-recalling-mdc-alliance-mps\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mudzuri Urges Mwonzora To Stop Recalling MDC Alliance MPs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Senior MDC-T official Elias Mudzuri has chided reinstated secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora for going on the rampage, recalling MDC Alliance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mudzuri-urges-mwonzora-to-stop-recalling-mdc-alliance-mps\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-05-19T20:13:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/ELIAS-MUDZURI-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"404\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mudzuri-urges-mwonzora-to-stop-recalling-mdc-alliance-mps#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mudzuri-urges-mwonzora-to-stop-recalling-mdc-alliance-mps\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Mudzuri Urges Mwonzora To Stop Recalling MDC Alliance MPs\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-05-19T20:13:28+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mudzuri-urges-mwonzora-to-stop-recalling-mdc-alliance-mps\"},\"wordCount\":240,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mudzuri-urges-mwonzora-to-stop-recalling-mdc-alliance-mps#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/ELIAS-MUDZURI-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"MDC\",\"Mudzuri\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mudzuri-urges-mwonzora-to-stop-recalling-mdc-alliance-mps#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mudzuri-urges-mwonzora-to-stop-recalling-mdc-alliance-mps\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mudzuri-urges-mwonzora-to-stop-recalling-mdc-alliance-mps\",\"name\":\"Mudzuri Urges Mwonzora To Stop Recalling MDC Alliance MPs - 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