By Winifred Bulus
Two Zimbabwean politicians have resolved to prevent 93- year old president, Robert Mugabe another term in office.
Both parties signed a memorandum of understanding at the former prime minister’s resident and revealed the desire to work together.
“This is a memorandum of understanding – there will of curse be substantive negotiations later. This is just an outline of our desire to work together,” said Joice Mujuru.
The politicians comprise of the president’s vice president, Joice Mujuru from 2004 to 2014 after she was fired and a once prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai from 2009 2013.
“This is just the beginning of the building blocks towards establishing a broad alliance to confront Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU PF) between now and the next election in 2018,” said Morgan Tsvangirai.
The ZANU PF is Robert Mugabe’s political party, led by him. Mugabe is one of Africa’s oldest nationalist who has been in power for about 30 years after he was Prime minister from 1980. Mugabe’s political party ZANU, in December revealed his the intention of the 93-year old rerunning for the presidency in 2018.
This therefore, prompted the two politicians into forming an alliance that would change the country’s stand against Mugabe in the 2018 electons.
Meanwhile, Morgan Tsvangirai had lost the presidency election to Robert Mugabe in the last election in 2013. He is currently the leader of MDC-T, a faction of the Movement for Democratic Change.
Joice Mujuru on the other hand formed the National People’s Party in March last year and had revealed that her party and that of Morgan had been working on an agreement for six months to finalise the coalition.
