The MDC Alliance is on the verge of facing another humiliating legal defeat as it emerges that party’s legal team was ill prepared for the fight.
By Liberty Makusha
There are rumours circulating on social media that this court hearing is a delayed match as the smaller MDC faction led by Dr. Khupe already got a favourable ruling before the filing by the affected MPs.
It would be surprising to expect the High Court to rule in favour of Chamisa’s camp following the recent Supreme Court Corona judgement that effectively initiated a coup against the Alliance project.
According to Mwonzora and Madhuku, the MDC Alliance should not be treated as a political party but an umbrella organisation assembled for the purposes of the 2018 elections.
There is also the argument that the Alliance pact does not have a constitution but uses the MDC-T constitution that puts the argument of the Alliance as a party in disarray.
This is the fault-line that the Mwonzora faction and the ‘captured’ judiciary system are going to exploit to deliver a death blow to the Chamisa camp.
Senator Douglas Mwonzora believes that the MDC-T has the largest number of Members of Parliament in the august house, and he can exercise his power of recalling to whip the vulnerable MPs into line.
News from those who have been at the court point to the fact that the Dr. Khupe legal mind, Professor Lovemore Madhuku had a field day decimating the Chamisa camp as he ‘literally’ delivered a constitutional lecture to the other faction.
The flow of the political flooding river prevailing in the courts and the state institutions is not favourable to Chamisa, and it was ill advised for the affected legislators to approach the courts for a ‘pre-determined’ ruling.
The only court that Chamisa and his disciples should appeal to is the court of public opinion, the general voters who resoundingly voted for those MPs under the MDC banner and not the MDC-T.
History seems to be repeating itself, producing the same lessons, that a real opposition party is known by voters and this can only be proved through a credible, free and fair election which Zimbabweans have not experienced from independence in 1980.
Comments
About Author
