Jane Mlambo| Zanu PF has finally swallowed its pride and admitted that they need opposition leader Nelson Chamisa to solve their legitimacy crisis.

This follows admission by Zanu PF secretary for legal affairs, Paul Mangwana that they are trying to start meetings with Chamisa.

“We are trying to start meetings once Chamisa clears the confusion in his head,” Mangwana told Newsday yesterday.

“The confusion relates to accepting parliamentary results and not accepting Presidential results when elections were happening at the same time. His Members of Parliament have been sworn in as MPs and taken up their seats in Parliament and he continues to say he doesn’t recognise the presidential elections,” added Mangwana.

He added that the dialogue meeting will look at issues of mutual concern among the two parties and map a framework of working together to move the country forward.

“We want to look at issues of mutual concern among political parties and things that we can work together and see how we can move our country forward, from the economic front and legislative front, if there are any laws we feel we must improve, then we negotiate that.”

However, MDC secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora said they stood ready to dialogue, but would not accept being given conditions by Zanu PF.

“We are ready for dialogue, but it must not have conditions. So we totally disagree with Zanu PF when it wants to set conditions for the dialogue. It must be dialogue without conditions,” he said.

Mwonzora said the interparty dialogue meetings were fruitful in bringing about the biometric voter registration issue and crafting the code of conduct for the political parties that was used in the elections.

-Newsday