By Own Correspondent| The MDC Alliance has given the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) until end of day today to implement opposition’s demands for a free, fair and transparent poll failure of which the Alliance will organise a massive vigil at the elections body head offices.
MDC Alliance Principal Tendai Biti told a local publication thaf failure by ZEC to implement the opposition’s demands will see citizens camp at the elections body offices until election day on July 30.
Said Biti: “We will be leading from the front, we will be living on the streets. We are not going to allow this election to be stolen. They can kill us. We are prepared to die for free, fair and credible elections.
We have given ZEC a deadline and if they don’t address the issues raised in the petition by Monday, then we will be living on the streets. We have said this over and over again, there will be no voting. Some people talk about us boycotting the election, I don’t know where they get that. We are not boycotting, there will be no election.”
MDC-T deputy treasurer-general Charlton Hwende on his Facebook page confirmed the development and called on companies with mobile toilets to contact the party.
Wrote Hwende: “Companies renting mobile toilets, please get in touch urgently looking for 500 mobile toilets.”
However, Zanu-PF’ s deputy legal Secretary Munyaradzi Paul Mangwana dismissed the opposition’s threats, arguing that the MDC Alliance had no mandate to dictate the country’s agenda.
“Does the MDC have a country or they are just a political party that is in a country which has a government? They cannot tell this nation what it can and cannot do.
They are one of the 55 political parties participating in an election. So where do they get the authority to do declarations as if they are the ruling party?”