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(TALKZIMBABWE) Mugabe responds to MDC heckling

Mugabe responds to MDC heckling
Our reporter
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:55:00 +0000

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has criticised the behaviour of legislators who heckled and booed him and chanted party slogans during a speech he made to mark the opening of the First Session of the 7th Parliament yesterday.

Describing the behaviour as “"barbaric and nonsensical" President Mugabe said the opposition MDC disrespected a Speaker they had elected.

“They should have honoured their Speaker. Let’s hope what we saw today would not be repeated in future. Let’s poise ourselves for hard work. Forget the nonsense and barbarism that we saw this morning. That is what they do in their world,” he said.

President Mugabe said he wondered whether the legislators had slept at a beerhall and understood the importance and dignity of their newly-found role.

He said “political rally behaviour” should not be carried into the august House.

Labels: MDC VIOLENCE, MUGABE, PARLIAMENT

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