Own Correspondent|MDC-T Vice President Obert Gutu has said that there is no need for a Government of National Unity (GNU) in Zimbabwe as democracy entails that the party that won elections must govern until the next elections.

“On the GNU, our position is very clear and unequivocal. Let the party that won the elections govern. After all, that’s the very essence of democracy, isn’t?” Gutu said.

Gutu himself is a former Minister in the 2013 to 2018 GNU that was entered into by former President Robert, the late MDC founding President Morgan Tsvangirai and Authur Mutambara of the splinter MDC.

Responding to those who said MDC leader Nelson Chamisa was calling for a transitional authority not a GNU,, Gutu who is a corporate lawyer had this to say: “There’s a distinction without a difference between a GNU and a so-called Transitional Authority, if you ask me.”

Vice President Kembo Mohadi has also dismissed any GNU, transitional authority or whatever coalition talks with Nelson Chamisa, saying his party had enough parliamentary vote to make laws unlike in 2008 when there was a hung parliament.