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(NYASATIMES) MDC-T will not leave govt: Pres Mugabe

MDC-T will not leave govt: Pres Mugabe
The Herald/TZG
Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:18:00 +0000

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe says the antics of the MDC-T party are nothing but an attempt to wrestle power from Zanu PF and that despite their announcement of "disengagement", they will not leave the inclusive Government.

He said that the MDC-T leadership's complaints were aimed to regime change from within the inclusive Government and Zanu PF would not budge on that score.

"The matters the people are complaining about in the MDC-T are that we should now voluntarily, from our side, you see, give away aspects of our authority, we will not do that.

The president added that the MDC-T can go to any summit or consult any leadership around the world, but that will not happen.

"They can go to any summit, any part of the world to appeal — that will not happen."

President Mugabe added that MDC-T's actions were borne out of emotion, rather than reason and they will not leave the inclusive Government.

"I do not read that they would want to leave the inclusive Government, I think that they will come back to it soon," said President Mugabe.

He said no party in the inclusive Government could give another an ultimatum since the Government subsisted by virtue of agreements between the three parties.

The president urged the MDC-T leadership to be guided by national fundamentals and not emotions in conducting Government business, saying it was Mr Morgan Tsvangirai’s party that was still to meet its obligations under the Global Politi-cal Agreement.

He added that his Zanu PF party had done its part under the GPA.

"The inclusive Government and the hiccups . . . you will always get people in any arrangement who are guided by little emotional thoughts and act in accordance with them and who would want things to go their way, and not the national way, and not the agreed way.

"There is nothing in the GPA that has not been done by Zanu PF, nothing at all. We have fulfilled everything that the GPA wanted us to fulfil; the legal aspects we were very accurate about them.

"The swearing in of all those who were supposed to be sworn in, that was done timeously and in an appropriate manner.

"The matters that had to do with what, beyond the legal aspect we had to do, we have done."

The MDC-T leadership, the President said, still had to meet its obligations regarding the West’s subversive activities in the form of the ruinous economic sanctions and pirate radio broadcasts.

"They are not doing anything about sanctions, they are not doing anything about ... illegal radios, and other forms of communications which are daily undermining the principles of unity and other principles that underlie the Global Political Agreement. They are not doing anything about that."

He said MDC-T, which was moving freely all over the globe, was doing nothing about the fact that they had instigated the sanctioning against some of their counterparts in Government.

"... the country is suffering under sanctions which the MDC called for. Are they doing anything about that?

"Those are matters that are fundamental, much more than the appointment of governors. Anyway that is a matter that is within the prerogative of the President and that is for me to decide."

Labels: MDC, MUGABE, NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT

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