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Cde Gumbo

Hebert Zharare Political Editor
Zanu-PF has no plans to re-engage the vanquished MDC-T to form another coalition Government and the opposition leader, Mr Morgan Tsvangirai’s announcement on Sunday that the revolutionary party would soon reach out to him, was “rubbish and hogwash.”
The revolutionary party’s spokesperson Cde Rugare Gumbo yesterday said Zanu-PF was busy implementing its economic blue print, Zim Asset and would not spend time on a political party that was ditched by its traditional allies in the region and internationally.

“Tsvangirai’s proposal for another coalition government is rubbish and hogwash. You cannot judge a new government’s policies in about six months. There are a lot of polices that we need to carry out. As Zanu-PF, we have efficient policies and programmes and it is clear that the MDC-T has nothing,” said Cde Gumbo.

Addressing his supporters in Mabvuku, Harare on Sunday, Mr Tsvangirai said he predicted another coalition government, saying Zanu-PF was likely to re-engage him to rescue what he called “the free-falling economy.”

Mr Tsvangirai and his party were rejected by voters in last year’s harmonised elections.  ZANU-PF routed  MDC-T, sweeping 1 496 out of 1 958 wards in the local authority elections, translating to over 76 percent dominance in local government countrywide.This came in wake of the 61,09 percent rout handed to Mr Tsvangirai by President Mugabe, who left the MDC-T leader reeling with 33,94 percent of the vote with Zanu-PF clinching 160 seats out of the 210 National Assembly constituencies to give the revolutionary party a crushing 76 percent dominance.

After factoring in 60 women’s quota seats elected by proportional representation of six for each of the 10 provinces, the final composition of the National Assembly came to 197 seats for Zanu-PF, 70 for MDC-T, two for MDC, and one independent giving Zanu-PF just under 73 percent of the total seats in the National Assembly but well over the two thirds majority of 180 seats.

“We have the Zim Asset that we  areimplementing and the results will be realised slowly. They think they can come back through the back door and start enjoying the benefits of being in Government. That is not going to happen.

“There is a huge difference between what happened in 2009 and 2013. This time Zanu-PF managed to win majority in parliament, while President Mugabe got over 51 percent vote.

“What he (Mr Tsvangirai) is saying does not make sense, he is just grandstanding. No one is going to support him in the region and internationally. Botswana wants him out, America, Australia, Britain, the EU among others have all attacked him for fanning violence in his party.

“These countries might not support the Zanu-PF Government, but they see light and future of this country in the hands of Zanu-PF Government,” he said.

All is not well in the MDC-T camp and the opposition leader has been organising some meetings in Harare every weekend, where he still have some pockets of supporters to drum up support for his waning political fortunes.

Mr Tsvangirai has fallen out of favour with  his  lieutenants who have been calling for leadership renewal in the party and recently youths reportedly loyal to him attacked deputy treasurer Mr Elton Mangoma, youth leaders Mr Solomon Madzore and Mr Promise Mkwanazi and secretary general Mr Tendai Biti.

Mr Mangoma has since been suspended, a scenario that has been described as “voidable” by Mr Biti