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(TALKZIMBABWE) Tsvangirai says Mutsekwa creating parallel party structures

Tsvangirai says Mutsekwa creating parallel party structures
By: Ralph Mutema
Posted: Sunday, June 27, 2010 7:07 pm

PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has accused recently demoted minister Giles Mutsekwa of creating "parallel party structures" that threaten and undermine his leadership of the embattled Movement for Democratic Change party.

Former co-minister of Home Affairs Giles Mutsekwa, who was recently demoted in a move masked as a "restructuring exercise" or "reshuffle", Mr Mutsekwa was given a less influential post of Minister of Housing.

An MDC-T official who refused to be named told the Zimbabwe Guardian on Sunday that Mr Mutsekwa will go before a disciplinary committee of that party together with Prosper Mutseyami, the MDC-T provincial organising secretary in Manicaland.

The two are accussed of creating parallel structures in Mutare.

In an interview, a senior member of the MDC-T, Mr Tapiwa Mashakada, who is also the newly appointed Minister of Economic Planning and Investment Promotion told this reporter that Mr Mutsekwa and Mr Mutseyami will be reined in and that the decision was made by the party’s national council.

"This is not witch hunting but every party has a disciplinary procedure and that's what the prime minister will be following," said Mr Mashakada.

"Why do you always speculate about issues. Mutsekwa is answerable to the prime minister, so there's no news here," he said before cutting the phone.

Mutsekwa is a more popular figure in Mutare than the prime minister

Reports of infighting within the MDC-T have taken centre-stage in various online and print media. The PM is said to be getting increasingly paranoid as his two terms are coming to and end. The MDC-T says a party leader cannot hold more than two terms.

Labels: GILES MUTSEKWA, MDC, MORGAN TSVANGIRAI, NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT, TAPIWA MASHAKADA

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