By Paul Nyathi|The ruling ZANU PF parliamentarians have held a caucus meeting where they have selected Gutu South Member of Parliament Pupurai Togarepi as their Chief Whip for the 9th Parliament.

Togarepi who is also the leader of the Zanu-PF Youth League takes over from Lovemore Matuke who was the party chief whip for the last parliament.

ZimEye.com is reliably informed that the party will vote for Jacob Mudenda to continue as the Speaker of the National Assembly and will be deputised by Tsitsi Gezi. Previous Deputy Speaker Mabel Chinomona who was elected into senate will be the Senate President.

The elections will be held on Tuesday at the parliament’s first seating.

The Chief Whip is an official whose task is to ensure that members of the party attend and vote as the party leadership desires.

Opposition MDC Alliance who have inferior numbers to ZANU PF in both houses have not yet revealed if they will be presenting candidates to contest the speaker and senate president positions.