COMMUNIQUE OF THE MDC ALLIANCE NATIONAL STANDING
COMMITTEE WEDNESDAY,
7TH MAY 2020
REALIZING that the Lockdown has been abused to lock down only the
people and the MDC Alliance and to further ambush the people with the
Supreme Court judgement and recalling of People’s MPSS.
ACKNOWLEDGING the desperate attempts by the regime to destabilize,
weaken and destroy the people’s party, the MDC Alliance, a voluntary
association, by seeking to impose and force it to accept puppet leaders
imposed upon them by the system.
REJECTING the illegal act in parliament to illegally and unlawfully recall
MDC Alliance MPs at the instruction of imposters purporting to
represent that party.
FURTHER REJECTING Speaker of Parliament’s abuse of parliament to
fight MDC Alliance for insisting on Emmerson Mnangagwa’s
illegitimacy. This act has taken illegitimacy to parliamernt. Only an
illegitimate President will preside over this kind of a circus. State
institutions are being abused to destroy the opposition abusing
instruments of the state. Nobody who works with the regine sgainst the
people will ever succeed.
CONVINCED that what is being witnessed is a war by Mnangagwa and
ZANU PF through proxies against the MDC Alliance having net forgiven
the party for defeating him in the 2018 general elections. The ond game
is to totally annihilate the opposition and establish a one party state.
CONCERNED that the biggest ‘crime’ that MDC Alliar and its candidates committed was to garner over 2 million votes in the last presidential elections; which is a serious threat to the system and reason for this frantic efforts to destroy or eliminate the MDC Alliance.
AWARE that:
They wanted MDC Alliance to join POLAD.
They wanted MDC Alliance President to accept to be leader of
Opposition in Parliament.
They wanted MDC Alliance to accept the stolen election outcome.
They want to tell MDC Alliance who to partner and hew oppose.
They wanted MDC Alliance MPs to recognize Emmerson Mnangagwa as legitimate President of Zimbabwe after the stolen and disputed 2018 general election.
THEREFORE, in this context, the National Standing Committee of the
MDC Alliance met today in Harare and made the following resolutions:
1. The Standing Committee noted the perverse and insidiesattempt by
Zanu-PF and its proxies to dismember the MDC Alliance by cecuting a
coup against the legitimately elected leadership of the ME Alliance
under the guise of implementing the equally insidious judgenent of the
Supreme Court which seeks to foist Zanu PF proxies as leaders of the
MDC Alliance in brazen violation of the MDC Constitution, The Standing
Committee thus resolved to reject in toto and with utter contemp Zanu PF and its proxies’ attempt to foist it’s cousins and partners as leaders of the MDC Alliance.
2. All MDC Alliance MPs will forthwith suspend all contribution in
Parliament and disengage from all platforms in which the party has to
interact with Zanu PF pending consultations with their constituencies, the electorate and Zimbabweans at large on the decision for a total withdrawal from parliament. The party reiterates that only the MDC Alliance has the nower to lawfully recall or redeploy its MPs elected under its ticket. one else
has the mandate to do that except only the MDC Alliance.
The MDC Alliance in the meantime is engaging the NEC, National council, all party organs and the people of Zimbabwe on a robust program of action to resolve the legitimacy national question.
The MDC Alliance will roll out a programme of action togeher with civil society, professional bodies, churches, labour, be5s, war veterans, political parties, women and youth groups.
The MDC Alliance will not accept the holding of a Zanu PF organized
extra-ordinary congress in the MDC. Zanu PF cannot dictate another
political party’s constitution and hold a congress on its behalf and impose
a puppet leadership.
The MDC Alliance has noted that Morgen Komichi, Douglas Mwonzora
and the Elias Mudzuri have decided to cooperate with ZANU PF forging ter own alliance with the state. They therefore have expelled themselves from the party and are forthwith relieved of their positions and membership in the party. They are further withdrawn from all positions to which they had been deployed by the party. Replacements have been made and shall be announced in due course.
8. The party resolved to take all the necessary steps to recor all the
gains of the peoples’ democratic struggle.
9. The Supreme Court judgement has engendered an illegal team seeking
to extend the expired mandates of the 2014 structures which had since expired. The terms of office of all 2014 structures expired In October 2019 and the toxic judgement illegally seeks to give a Lazarus moment by seeking to resurrect the expired mandate of the MDC-T structures.
10. The National Standing Committee took note of the COVID-19 pandemic and the dislocated livelihoods of the vulnerable and the majority of Zimbabweans who are surviving in the informal sector, The illegitimate regime has provided no safety nets whatsoeve to despondent Zimbabweans. They have instead destroyed vending stalls where the majority of Zimbabweans are erking a living in informal trading.
Pursuant to our Agenda 2020 program of action, we put forwathe five
fights that we, the people of Zimbabwe must pursue this yThey are
as follows;
• The fight for a people’s government, reforms and return
• The fight for a better life, dignity and livelihoods.
• The fight against corruption.
• The fight for rights, freedoms, security of persons and ru’
• The fight in defence of the constitution and constitutionalism
We now call upon the people of Zimbabwe to build a broader sensus
and united front of all progressive citizens to address the national crisis.
Thank you
God Bless you