By Own Correspondent| President Emmerson Mnangagwa has revealed that government will soon establish the position of leader of opposition in Parliament in accordance with Commonwealth tradition.

He confirmed the plans in an interview with US’s Bloomberg TV.

President Mnangagwa is in New York where he is attending the United Nations General Assembly.

“We are going to introduce the office of the leader of the opposition in Parliament,” said the Zimbabwean leader (Friday).

“This is what we are going to do ourselves but under the former administration (Robert Mugabe’s) there was no formal recognition of the leader of the opposition.

Under my administration we are embracing the Commonwealth approach where we recognise the leader of the opposition.”

The MDC led by Nelson Chamisa is Zimbabwe’s main opposition and the party has to date not recognised Mnangagwa’s July 30 victory arguing that he stole Chamisa’s election victory.

The party alleges that President Mnangagwa used the country’s elections body ZEC to manipulate the results while the Constitutional court rubber stamped Mnangagwa’s victory despite overwhelming evidence that Chamisa had emerged winner.

Despite the constitutional court’s ruling, Chamisa maintains he won the elections and scoffed at Mnangagwa latest overtures.

The opposition leader’s spokesman Nkululeko Sibanda said Chamisa wants Mnangagwa to return the country to “legitimacy”, meaning recognising the MDC Alliance leader as winner.

“Our president is worried about the people’s welfare. The party and president Chamisa are not worried about creating new position but a return to legitimacy because the people voted for their leader but were cheated.

We want the implementation of the people’s five point plan that includes a return to legitimacy, a clear economic rescue plan among others,” said Sibanda.

MDC Alliance national chairperson Tabita Khumalo is the party’s leader in Parliament.

During the first sitting of parliament last week, opposition legislators walked out of parliament in a move which they said reflected that the legislators did not recognise President Mnangagwa as the legitimate winner of the July 30 polls.

However, the move drew mixed reactions from citizens with some hailing the move while others condemned it saying the opposition should move away from holding the nation at ransom and discharge their oversight role and provide checks and balances for the executive.