Media Statement|The people’s party, MDC remains resolute in its recently launched course of public action and now plans to intensify the people-led Free Zimbabwe Campaign.
The people-led Free Zimbabwe Campaign was formally launched at Harare on Friday 16th August 2019
The Free Zimbabwe Campaign is an essential part of the implementation process of the people’s party strategic RELOAD document.
Under RELOAD, the people’s party, MDC has proposed a 5 step process towards the full restoration of a legitimate and popularly elected people’s government in Zimbabwe:
- Political and Diplomatic Pressure
- Broad based and lnclusive all-Stakeholders National Dialogue
- Agreement on a national Transitional Mechanism
- lmplementation of Comprehensive Reforms
- Free and Fair Elections leading to an undisputed popularly elected people’s government
As such, RELOAD emphasises the fact that Zimbabwe will only be able to embark on the true path towards sustainable socio-economic recovery only under an undisputed and popularly elected people’s government.
This then explains why the MDC as a people’s party, remains unshaken by the illegitimate regime’s rather desperate efforts to stop the Free Zimbabwe Campaign.
lndeed, during the past two weeks, the illegitimate regime has used all the available tricks in the book
The illegitimate regime’s desperate efforts include unleashing a wave of personal abductions, violent assaults, unjust arrests and political detentions, and a determined attempt to characterise the people’s peaceful Free Zimbabwe Campaign as a criminal and violent one.
Added to that, there has been a high handed response from the clearly politically compromised police, coupled with the apparent blanket ban of all street marches or demonstrations; through the indiscriminate issuance of wholesale prohibition orders.
This of course is manifestly in blatant violation of Section 59 of our national Constitution that guarantees all citizens of Zimbabwe the Right to Demonstrate and Petition in a peaceful manner.
To this end, the people’s party has decided to take a step back this week and call for progress review consultation meetings with the intention of boosting the already existing efforts under the Free Zimbabwe Campaign
The review process is set to start at the end of this week, with the holding of the crucial meeting by the people’s party’s highest decision making body in between the Congresses; the National Executive Council (NEC)
The NEC meeting will then be followed by further consultations with local party leaders and members especially at a district level with the ultimate aim of boosting and renewing the already existing momentum that the Free Zimbabwe Campaign has clearly gained during the last two weeks.
MDC: Change that Delivers
Daniel Molokele
MDC Spokesperson