(2) The recall of MDC Alliance members of Parliament
(i) The NSC notes that a separate independent the MDC Alliance participated in the election of July 2018.
(ii) That being so, the NSC condemns as wrong and false, the decision taken by the Speaker of Parliament and the President of the Senator in recalling 4 members of Parliament namely, Our Chair Thabitha Khumalo, Our secretary general Chalton Hwende, Lillian Timveous, and Prosper Mutseyami.
(iii) Only the MDC Alliance has the power to recall its MPs. No-one else has the mandate to do that except only the MDC Alliance.
(3) The position of MDC Alliance in Parliament
(i) Pursuant to the above, the NSC resolved that with immediate effect the MDC Alliance suspends the membership in parliament by its members of Parliament pending consultation with the electorate and other stakeholders on the way forward.
(ii) For the avoidance of doubt this means that no MDC member shall attend any parliamentary committee or the sitting of parliament or any official business of parliament until such time as a decision is made.
(4) The Protection of the Struggle
(i) The MDC Alliance has noted that Morgen Komichi, Douglas Mwonzora and Elias Mudzuri have decided to cooperate with Zanu PF and the state.
They therefore have expelled themselves from the MDC Alliance and are forthwith relieved of their positions and membership in the party. They are further withdrawn from all positions to which they had been deployed by the party. Replacements have been made and shall be announced in due course.
(ii) The party resolved to take all the necessary steps to recover all the gains of the peoples’ democratic struggle.
(iii) The Standing Committee noted the perverse and insidious attempt by Zanu PF and its proxies to dismember the MDC Alliance by executing a coup against the legitimately elected leadership of the MDC Alliance under the guise of implementing the equally insidious judgement of the Supreme Court which seeks to foist Zanu PF proxies as leaders of the MDC Alliance in brazen violation of the MDC Constitution.
(iv) The MDC Alliance will not accept the holding of a Zanu PF organized extra-ordinary congress in the MDC. Zanu PF cannot write another political party’s constitution and hold a congress on its behalf to impose a puppet leadership.
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