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MDC
leadership stands by National Council resolutions
Movement
for Democratic Change (MDC)
May 19, 2009
The MDC is dismayed
by the statements made today by the other signatories to the Global
Political Agreement (GPA) claiming that the MDC National Council
resolution to refer all the outstanding issues to the SADC and the
AU are premature.
Zanu PF today made hollow
claims that the decision by the MDC National Council, which is the
party's supreme decision making body, was premature.
However, the MDC leadership
will stand by the resolutions made by the MDC National Council in
Masvingo on Sunday and will approach SADC and AU to deal with the
outstanding issues.
Although the three political
principals to the GPA, our party president, Morgan Tsvangirai, Professor
Arthur Mutambara and Mr Robert Mugabe have not yet declared a deadlock
over the outstanding issues, the MDC is gravely concerned that after
97 days since the formation of the inclusive government these critical
issues remain unresolved.
These toxic and non-compliance
issues as the MDC National Council rightly pointed out at their
Sunday meeting are; the continued farm disruptions, the failure
by Mugabe to swear in Senator Roy Bennett and the appointments of
provincial governors, ambassadors, permanent secretaries, the Reserve
Bank of Zimbabwe governor and the Attorney-General.
The MDC is therefore
concerned that after over three months of continued weekly haggling
among the three principals, Zanu PF considers the impasse as a normal.
The people of Zimbabwe
and the world at large are eager to see the inclusive government
urgently dealing with issues of governance, national healing, democratisation
and the rule of law.
But this is not happening
as there continues to be the selective application of the rule of
law characterised by the continuous detention and re-detention of
political and civic society activists, lawyers and journalists.
As a party, the MDC is
also worried by the continued politicisation of State institutions.
And as a party we have
no option but to refer the outstanding issues to the guarantors
of the GPA for arbitration.
As MDC we stand for the
future, we defend people's rights and we respect the rule
of law.
As a party of excellence
we are marching to a new Zimbabwe in our togetherness.
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