Zivanai Dhewa
...while the opposition prepares to lose
Acting Secretary of the Commissariat, Cde Patrick Chinamasa endorsed His Excellency, President Emmerson Mnangagwa as the Presidential candidate for the 2023 elections.
Speaking during the handover and take over ceremony of the Commissariat Department at ZANU PF Headquarters, Cde Chinamasa announced the ZANU PF resolution to have President Mnangagwa run for the second term in order for him to complete the country’s transformation that he began when he took office in 2018.
“His Excellency's achievements have transformed ZANU PF into a Juggernaut political machine steamrolling and unstoppable toward electoral victory in 2023. It is on the strength of these achievements that ZANU PF has through many conference resolutions resolved that Cde Ed Mnangagwa is our sole Presidential candidate come the 2023 Harmonised Elections,” said Cde Chinamasa.
Cde Chinamasa took a swipe at the illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the West and the continued financing of the country’s opposition and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) for purposes of regime change.
“I cannot conclude this Presser without denouncing the concerted and orchestrated destabilisation of the State or Government via sponsored interventions which have become a menace. Foreign funding by foreign intelligence services of opposition political parties, Non-Governmental Organisations (which are anything but civil) is clearly calculated to undermine the orderly evolution of our political, economic and judiciary systems and must be condemned in the strongest possible terms,” said Cde Chinamasa
Recently, the MDC Alliance on realising that it will lose the 2023 harmonised elections, begun preparing for its loss by forging a partnerships with private media journalists for a smear campaign and has also joined hands with the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, which has offered them a Lawfare fund meant to be used to reject the 2023 presidential election outcome and to also start small litigations in the build up to the elections in a bid to discredit the results.
Meanwhile, ZANU PF has also stuck to its guns demanding for the sanctions to be removed if the Diaspora vote is to be acceptable. ZANU PF members who are under sanctions cannot go to the diaspora to campaign freely for their vote.
“No Diaspora vote unless the sanctions are removed, if you want Diaspora vote, first make the playing field level by removing sanctions, so that ZANU PF leadership can go there to the diaspora and campaign freely without being vetted against sanctions,” said Cde Chinamasa.
