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MDC-T says Mugabe is now living on borrowed time

President Robert Mugabe is now living on borrowed time and the best thing he can do is to step down and call for  fresh elections, the Movement for Democratic Change led by former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said today.

In a statement thanking the nation for holding a peaceful stay-away, MDC-T spokesman Obert Gutu said, “the regime has been given notice that it is now living on borrowed time. ZANU-PF successfully rigged the elections on July 31, 2013 but they have hopelessly failed to rig the economy. The people of Zimbabwe are not docile and neither are they fools. They know, exactly, what they want.”

Gutu said Zimbabweans were crying out for a fresh start so Mugabe and his cabinet must resign immediately. But he said fresh elections can only be held after ensuring that electoral reforms have been undertaken.

“Zimbabwe is crying out for a fresh start, a new beginning,” he said.  “We also call upon SADC to take note of the situation in Zimbabwe and for an extraordinary regional summit to be held to look into the deteriorating political and socio-economic situation in the country.

“Fresh, free and fair elections should be held in Zimbabwe in order to usher in a legitimate government of the people. These fresh elections should only be held after ensuring that electoral reforms have been undertaken that will guarantee the holding of free and fair elections, that will pass the test of legitimacy.

“ These fresh elections should  be supervised by SADC, the AU and the UN. It is clear that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission is incorrigibly delinquent and severely compromised. ZEC is just but an extension of the collapsing ZANU- PF regime and in its current form, it is completely unable and incapable of running a free and fair election.”

Though it is still unclear who actually organised the stay-away, the MDC-T took credit for getting the ball rolling.

“The MDC showed the way by embarking on a massive ‘mother of all demonstrations’ in Harare on April 14, 2016,followed by equally successful mass demonstrations in Bulawayo and Mutare,” Gutu said.

“We are humbled by the fact that Zimbabweans are now emboldened and strengthened in their desire and clamour for peaceful, democratic change after taking a clue from the three highly successful mass demonstrations that were recently held by the MDC.

“Zimbabweans throughout the length and breadth of our beloved motherland are sick and tired of the  renegade and insipidly corrupt  ZANU- PF regime that is fronted by President Robert Mugabe.”

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