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Movement
for Democratic Change
October
25, 2012
The MDC believes
that the people of Zimbabwe spoke, had their voices
heard during the Copac outreach programme and captured in the
draft
constitution as presented by Copac to the 2nd All Stakeholders'
Conference.
That there will
always be sticky issues is not news. What the Copac documents did
was not to satisfy any political party, but to work towards providing
for the people of Zimbabwe a document that works as a framework
to give the people their freedoms, rights and dignity.
What the Copac
draft does is to unite the people of Zimbabwe regardless of gender,
ethnicity, religious or political affiliation. The document may
not be perfect to a section of society, but one which will protect
people from state excesses.
The MDC is satisfied
that though we may differ with certain clauses, the people of Zimbabwe
spoke and what they said is their reality. The people asked for
an expanded bill of rights, they got it. They asked for the role
of the security services to be enshrined in the constitution, it
is there.
As the people's Party of Excellence and a democratic movement,
the MDC believes that people should celebrate diversity and live
in harmony and togetherness. We are all Zimbabweans; no one should
get special treatment by virtue of association, neither should others
be castigated for ideological differences.
The MDC urges the people of Zimbabwe to hold on to the fact that
their voices are in, and to conclude by voting yes to the draft.
Until it becomes the supreme law of the land, the people should
fight for what they said in the draft constitution.
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