The MDC chief whip and Mutare Central MP, Innocent Gonese, said the MDC parliamentary caucus would push the bill in parliament when it resumed sitting next month.
The amendments to Posa were moved by Gonese as a private members Bill.
Although there has been little debate in the House of Assembly, as MPs have not been sitting due to the legislative recess caused by the Copac outreach meetings, the MDC MPs are going to push through the amendments when the House of Assembly opens, he said.
The amendments seek to limit the polices power to authorise political gatherings and meetings. Under the proposed amendments, Clause 6 of the Bill, the powers to prohibit public gathering will no longer be vested in the police but with the magistrates courts.
A court order would be required to stop meetings. While introducing the motion last year, Gonese, who has several times failed to meet his constituents in Mutare
Central because of Posa, said the reason he was seeking changes to Posa was because of the abuse of the Act by the police.
The problem we have in Zimbabwe is that the police have applied, misinterpreted and misplaced provisions of the Posa in that regard, said Gonese.
During the Public Order and Security Amendment Bill public hearings held earlier this year across the country, the general sentiment by the public was that they did not want the repressive Posa and blasted the excessive abuse of the Act by the police and the partisan way it was used against MDC cadres.
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