Morgan Tsvangirai flaks rival Mugabe

  1. Posted on Friday 8 October 2010 - 09:03
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    Nangayi Guyson, AfricaNews reporter in Kampala, Uganda
    Trouble is brewing in Zimbabwe's power-sharing cabinet as Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai accused President Robert Mugabe of violating the constitution and unilateral decision-making. He said his MDC party would not recognize a string of senior appointments made by Mugabe.
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    Addressing journalists after a meeting of his party's top executives, Tsvangirai accused Mugabe of breaching the power-sharing agreement and the constitution in making senior government positions without consulting him, according to Reuters.

    Tsvangirai assured that he would not quit the unity government.

    "We will refuse to recognize any of the appointments which the president has made illegally and unconstitutionally over the past 18 months," Tsvangirai said.

    "I have defended President Robert Mugabe at my own cost politically. But neither I nor the MDC can stand back any longer and just allow President Mugabe and the Zanu-PF to defy the law, to flaunt the constitution, and to act as if they own this country," he said.

    The MDC (Movement for Democratic Change) leader also accused the president of refusing to swear in white farmer Roy Bennett, the prime minister's choice for the post of deputy agriculture minister.

    "He (Mugabe) confirmed to me and Mutambara on Monday that he has no intention of ever swearing in Roy. The matter of Roy Bennett has now become a personal vendetta and part of a racist agenda," Tsvangirai said.

    The two parties have also been wrangling over sanctions imposed by Western governments on Mugabe and his inner circle as well as the president's refusal to appoint farmer Roy Bennett, a senior Tsvangiral ally who was recently acquitted of treason, as deputy minister of agriculture.

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