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Zimbabwe parliament expels six lawmakers as opposition infighting escalates

by SAT Reporter
March 18, 2021
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Zimbabwe parliament expels six lawmakers as opposition infighting escalates

Opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party leader Nelson Chamisa addresses a media conference in Harare, Zimbabwe July 29, 2018. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings

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HARARE (The Southern African Times) – Six Zimbabwean lawmakers, including ex-finance minister Tendai Biti, were expelled from parliament on Wednesday after being recalled by a faction of their party as the fight to control the biggest opposition movement escalates.

The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party has been in disarray since the country’s Supreme Court declared in March 2020 that Nelson Chamisa’s leadership was illegitimate and ordered the MDC to elect a new leader.

The move split the party into two competing factions. Chamisa, 43, narrowly lost the 2018 presidential election to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and maintains that the vote was rigged and does not recognize the president.

Biti, a finance minister during the 2009-2013 unity government, is one of Chamisa’s deputies and an outspoken lawmaker who chaired parliament’s public accounts committee, which has criticised the government’s handling of finances.

Speaker of parliament Jacob Mudenda said he had received a letter from an opposition faction that claimed Biti and five other MDC members of parliament no longer belonged to the party and had therefore forfeited their positions as lawmakers.

Zimbabwe’s electoral laws state that if an MP quits their party or is expelled they lose their seat. That should trigger a bye-election but Zimbabwe has suspended all elections in the last year, citing the COVID-19 pandemic.

In that time, more than 30 MDC lawmakers, all allies of Chamisa, have been recalled from parliament and their seats remain empty.

Chamisa and the MDC say his rivals are working with the ruling ZANU-PF party to weaken him as punishment for refusing to recognize Mnangagwa’s election.

“This rogue regime is employing all tactics including repressive ‘patriotism’ laws, dismembering parliament and arbitrary arrests to crush dissent,” Fadzayi Mahere, the spokesperson for Chamisa’s MDC said.

The Zanu PF U.K. chairman, Marshall Gore said to SAT when asked to comment, “the MDC has failed to present a substantive alternative to opposition politics by failing to respect their own constitution. As a result they have ignored their internal realities caused by their lack of foresight to seeing enemies in Zanu PF whose mandate and deliverables speak for themselves”.

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