{"id":37403,"date":"2021-03-26T18:23:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T16:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=37403"},"modified":"2021-03-26T18:20:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T16:20:34","slug":"mahere-throws-tantrum-over-mwonzora-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mahere-throws-tantrum-over-mwonzora-move","title":{"rendered":"Mahere throws tantrum over Mwonzora move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>HARARE \u2013 The MDC Alliance on Thursday scoffed at threats by the rival MDC-T party to field candidates in by-elections using the Alliance name.<\/p>\n<p>The MDC-T led by Douglas Mwonzora said it planned to participate in by-elections as the MDC Alliance, claiming that a 2018 electoral pact signed with other opposition parties still subsisted.<\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear how the MDC-T, which recently held its congress, hopes to use the name of a rival party which held its own congress in May 2019 where coalition partners agreed to form a single party.<\/p>\n<p>MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere accused the Mwonzara outfit of being a \u201cZanu PF surrogate\u201d trying \u201cevery trick in the book\u201d to destroy the main opposition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve tried taking our elected representatives. They stole our funds. They violently invaded our building. The theft of our name is the latest stratagem to try and hoodwink the people,\u201d said Mahere.<\/p>\n<p>Mahere hinted that the MDC Alliance was most likely to rebrand to outfox the continuous onslaught by the MDC-T which it believes are \u201corchestrated by the ruling party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur message to Zanu PF is this: it\u2019s not the name that will win us elections. It\u2019s the people behind us who own the struggle. The people know who their leaders are. We\u2019ll fight back and we will fight back politically,\u201d added Mahere.<\/p>\n<p>By-elections are due in dozens of municipal and parliamentary seats after the MDC-T, backed by the courts, recalled MDC Alliance elected officials.<\/p>\n<p>MDC-T spokesman Witness Dube maintained that the MDC-T was \u201cthe principal party\u201d in the \u201cMDC Alliance electoral pact\u201d which has a corporate membership of seven political parties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe intend to maintain our obligations to the other parties in this electoral agreement, which is still very much alive. Zanu PF is not a member to this arrangement, therefore their views or perceived involvement is totally irrelevant to us as the MDC-T,\u201d Dube said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe make no apologies on following through on the letter and spirit in which the late president Morgan Tsvangirai sought to harness the diversity of political opinions and masses for the purposes of winning elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dube added that the MDC-T was the \u201cofficial opposition\u201d prescribed by the courts and the party is \u201cdoing everything to present\u201d the electorate with a \u201cstrong institution totally insulated from individual whims and personalised politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) lifted a ban on voter registration but said by-elections would remain suspended due to the lingering threat paused by Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>Mahere slammed ZEC for keeping by-elections on hold, calling the move unconstitutional and a violation of citizens\u2019 rights to electoral representation.<\/p>\n<p>Election watchdogs, including the Election Resource Centre (ERC), and the Zimbabwe Electoral Support Network (ZESN) have cited elections elsewhere during the Covid-19 era, arguing Zimbabwe can do the same responsibly without risking the spread of the virus. \u2013 ZimLive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. HARARE \u2013 The MDC Alliance on Thursday scoffed at threats by the rival MDC-T party to field candidates in by-elections using the Alliance name. The MDC-T led by Douglas Mwonzora said it planned to participate in by-elections as the MDC Alliance, claiming that a 2018 electoral pact signed with other opposition parties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":37402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,10,15],"tags":[1493,2189,19],"class_list":["post-37403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","tag-zimbabwe"],"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>Mahere throws tantrum over Mwonzora move - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"HARARE \u2013 The MDC Alliance on Thursday scoffed at threats by the rival MDC-T party to field candidates in by-elections us ...\" \/>\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\/mahere-throws-tantrum-over-mwonzora-move\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mahere throws tantrum over Mwonzora move\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"HARARE \u2013 The MDC Alliance on Thursday scoffed at threats by the rival MDC-T party to field candidates in by-elections us ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mahere-throws-tantrum-over-mwonzora-move\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-03-26T16:23:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/03\/img-605e098f3b1f9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\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\/mahere-throws-tantrum-over-mwonzora-move#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mahere-throws-tantrum-over-mwonzora-move\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Mahere throws tantrum over Mwonzora move\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-03-26T16:23:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mahere-throws-tantrum-over-mwonzora-move\"},\"wordCount\":480,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mahere-throws-tantrum-over-mwonzora-move#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/03\/img-605e098f3b1f9.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zimbabwe\",\"Zimbabwe\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"parties\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mahere-throws-tantrum-over-mwonzora-move#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mahere-throws-tantrum-over-mwonzora-move\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mahere-throws-tantrum-over-mwonzora-move\",\"name\":\"Mahere throws tantrum over Mwonzora move - 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