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MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora has acknowledged his party’s strategic failure after a failing to secure a single seat in the just ended by-elections.
Mwonzora who was talking tough prior to the snap polls looked jadded as he faced journalists admitting his party’s strategic shortcomings in the elections that he triggered by a number of recalls.
He claimed he was still able to force President Emerson Mnangagwa to the negotiating table to cobble a political rescue package for Zimbabwe.
“With Mr Mnangagwa when we talked about dialogue were very much aware that Zanu had super majority in the parliament we were very much aware that President Mnangagwa was the state President anyway we were very much aware that compared to them we had less state power so this dialogue is not appredicated upon our position of state power the fact that we have less of it is no good reason why we should not take part in dialogue, why we should not ask for dialogue. I want to quote Morgan Tsvangirai i think some time before or around 2007, he said we are going to pull Mugabe kicking and screaming towards the negotiating table at that point in time MDC did not have majority numbers in Parliament and it had not the same state power as ZANU PF.
“The same situation obtains we do not have the same state power as Zanu PF of course we do have 43 members of Parliament and we control Local Authority and so on, we are going to push for dialogue because it has worked before the end of the liberation war, was Lanchester it was dialogue brought Independence, the Unity Accord after Gukurahundi, brought something better for our people after the bloodletting in 2008 we had dialogue and the lives of Zimbabwean people changed for the better the fact that we have not done well in these elections does not mean that we will abandon what is in the best interest of Zimbabwean people,” he said.
Mwonzora added that, “We will continue to Chandon what is in the best interest of the people and what is in the best interest of the people is to for us to redress their issues of poverty, unemployment, social security and service delivery and if we redress those issues through dialogue we will pursue it whether we have more sits in Parliament or not will pursue that.”
MDC Alliance failed to get a single seat in the council and parliamentary by-elections. After he had recalled many members of Parliament of Citizen Coalition for Change
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