2023-11-06 12:09:24
The president of the Citizens’ Coalition for Change (CCC), the main opposition party in Zimbabwe, announced this Sunday, October 5, that his party is “disengaging from parliament and the Council” following the rejection of the appeal of 14 of its deputies following their dismissal last month.
In early October 2023, Sengezo Tshabangu, who presented himself as the “Acting Secretary General” of the Citizens’ Coalition for Change (CCC), sent a letter to the President of the National Assembly claiming that 15 deputies had left the political formation and therefore no longer have the right to sit in Parliament.
A Zimbabwean court has just rejected the appeal filed by 14 Opposition MPs following their dismissal last month.
In his judgment, Harare High Court magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi said that “the applicants have not produced the statutes of their party or any document demonstrating that Mr. Tshabangu did not hold the position of Secretary General party”.
CCC President Nelson Chamisa denounced the decision of the National Assembly, stressing that its elected members would boycott the activities of Parliament.
“We are disengaging from Parliament and the Council until this issue is resolved,” insisted Nelson Chamisa, alerting civil society as well as the Southern African Development Community (SADC) on this subject. African Union (AU), the European Union (EU) and the international community.
The Electoral Commission has received a letter from Parliament declaring all 15 seats vacant and paving the way for by-elections that might deliver a two-thirds majority in Parliament to the ruling Zanu-PF party.
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