MDC leadership stands by National Council resolutions

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 partys 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 peoples 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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