What is Dialogue if it can not produce a GNU ? Myth demistified ..
By Hosia Mviringi
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
Zimbabweans have gone through a lot of suffering through an Economy saddled by a plethora of problems chiefly Sanctions and Corruption.
As a result desperate solutions have been profered which include among other things Dialogue and a GNU between ZANU PF and the MDC.
But question is is dialogue necessary if it can't produce GNU ?
Is a GNU possible under the present circumstances ?
Firstly a GNU is not legally possible under the current circumstances because we have a duly elected Parliament with one Party commanding a 2/3 majority.Under such circumstances the Constitution does not provide for an GNU.It will take a very cumbersome process of amending the Constitution first and to establish a Global Political Agreement which may culminate in serious negotiations between political Parties.
But such a process can be a slippery slope because it can be successfully challenged in Court because no circumstances prevail currently for such an arrangement.By the way under the Zimbabwean Laws a GNU is only possible when an election fails to produce an outright winner or what we may call a hung Parliament where no political party attained a 2/3 Parliamentary majority.
So in this case its legally impossible.
Secondly a GNU is only possible between Parties that have a semblance of convergence both ideologically and politically.But in this case the major political parties are ideologically water and oil.They run parallel.
Politically the other Party is purely Pan Africanist while the other is 100% owned by the West.Thus these parties may not co-exist.
Lets not be fooled by the 2008 Mugabe -Tsvangirai pact which was by and large a cosmetic marriage.Its purely because Mugabe had no moral or Legal ground to refuse such a marriage because he did not have a Parliamentary majority.It was a marriage of convenience.
Whether or not that GNU was a success is a matter for another day.
But the clear conclusion in my opinion is that a GNU will remain just but a dream until the next elections in 2023.
Khutsho Mina.
By Hosia Mviringi
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
Zimbabweans have gone through a lot of suffering through an Economy saddled by a plethora of problems chiefly Sanctions and Corruption.
As a result desperate solutions have been profered which include among other things Dialogue and a GNU between ZANU PF and the MDC.
But question is is dialogue necessary if it can't produce GNU ?
Is a GNU possible under the present circumstances ?
Firstly a GNU is not legally possible under the current circumstances because we have a duly elected Parliament with one Party commanding a 2/3 majority.Under such circumstances the Constitution does not provide for an GNU.It will take a very cumbersome process of amending the Constitution first and to establish a Global Political Agreement which may culminate in serious negotiations between political Parties.
But such a process can be a slippery slope because it can be successfully challenged in Court because no circumstances prevail currently for such an arrangement.By the way under the Zimbabwean Laws a GNU is only possible when an election fails to produce an outright winner or what we may call a hung Parliament where no political party attained a 2/3 Parliamentary majority.
So in this case its legally impossible.
Secondly a GNU is only possible between Parties that have a semblance of convergence both ideologically and politically.But in this case the major political parties are ideologically water and oil.They run parallel.
Politically the other Party is purely Pan Africanist while the other is 100% owned by the West.Thus these parties may not co-exist.
Lets not be fooled by the 2008 Mugabe -Tsvangirai pact which was by and large a cosmetic marriage.Its purely because Mugabe had no moral or Legal ground to refuse such a marriage because he did not have a Parliamentary majority.It was a marriage of convenience.
Whether or not that GNU was a success is a matter for another day.
But the clear conclusion in my opinion is that a GNU will remain just but a dream until the next elections in 2023.
Khutsho Mina.
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