21/10/2010 00:00:00
by Staff Reporter-/*
Forget it ... Morgan Tsvangirai
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has vowed to defy President Robert Mugabe’s attempts to force his MDC-T party out of the coalition government by violating the Global Political Agreement (GPA).
Tsvangirai reacted angrily after Mugabe re-assigned some of the country’s ambassadors and re-appointed provincial governors without consulting his coalition partners.
The prime minister told party supporters that the move was part of attempts by Mugabe to frustrate the MDC-T out of the coalition government.
“Who doesn’t know that this unity Government is a shared compromise? Mugabe alone cannot constitute the GPA, he came begging me to form the transitional government with him,” Tsvangirai told a consultative meeting of the MDC-T in Harare’s Mabvuku suburb during the week.
The MDC leader insisted he was the legitimate winner of the last elections and vowed not walk away from government.
“If Mugabe thinks we can leave this transitional Government then he must forget, it.
“It is him who is supposed to leave it because the MDC won the elections; we don’t want to be diverted from our goal which is to respect the will of the people,” Tsvangirai said.
He also told his supporters that he is ready to take on Mugabe in new elections expected next year and insisted that there would not be any violence.
“I can assure you there will be no violence because we will use all our powers nationally, regionally and internationally to have a credible election. We are tired of people who want to intimidate people if they want violent elections why don’t they do it alone,”
“We need international observers, SADC must bring peace keeping force who will be monitoring the situation. Only a peaceful, credible and legitimate election will solve us from this ZANU PF mess.
What happened in 2008 must not be repeated,” Tsvangirai told his supporters.
The MDC-T has also claimed Harare police were barring its meetings in the capital as parties begin to campaign for the next elections.
In a statement, the party said police had invoked sections of the Public Order and Security Act (POSA) to stop two meetings in Budiriro and Highfields which were supposed to be addressed by Tsvangirai.
“The MDC is appalled by the action shown by the police in using the draconian POSA to bar peaceful public gatherings.
"The party is equally disturbed by the attempts by Zanu PF to abuse the police in achieving political ends,” the statement read
This article first appeared in New Zimbabwe
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