Correspondent|PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will be in parliament yet again on Thursday for Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube 2020 national budget presentation, will MDC Parliamentarians walk out on him?

MDC national spokesperson Daniel Molokele, in an interview, set the record straight the main opposition still did not recognise Mnangagwa as legitimately elected national leader.

Molokele said the stance was not spontaneous but was a party policy not to grant Mnangagwa the respect of national President.

“We do not recognise ED, full stop. The decision we made is based on the party resolution so neither the Standing Rules and Orders of Parliament nor the Speaker Jacob Mudenda can challenge the party decision,” he told reporters on Monday.

Mudenda was last year forced to summon some police officers into the legislative chamber to drag out MDC MPs one after the other in front of live television coverage on national broadcaster, ZBC-TV.

He was reacting to the defiant legislators’ failure to join their Zanu PF counterparts in standing up in recognition of Mnangagwa who had entered the house of assembly for the 2019 budget presentation.

Some of the MPs were injured in the process.

September this year during official opening of parliament by Mnangagwa, MDC had another trick up their sleeves; walking out on Mnangagwa as he presented his address.

The action elicited a backlash from Mudenda who decreed the withholding of five months of their allowances.

Mudenda has further blocked MDC MPs from directing any questions to cabinet ministers during parliament’s question and answer session.

Meanwhile, MDC will this Tuesday hold its caucus to deliberate on Thursday’s budget presentation on whether to attend the event or not.