By Takudzwa Changadeya
HARARE-Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has scorned the reigning regime as it fails to solve the worsening economic plight which is drastically wrecking the nation.
In a statement presented by the party spokesperson Hon. Daniel Molokele at the Morgan Tsvangirai House yesterday, the party said the current government is failing to liquify economic havoc in the nation.
“It is our strong view that the current regime has no capacity to resolve the ever-worsening crisis in Zimbabwe,” he said.
He revealed that the party is painfully concerned with the rapid worsening economic downturn which has seriously ruined the nation to an astonishing degree, immense poverty, bleak future which citizens are facing and the human rights situation in the nation.
“Further, the MDC notes with serious concern the ever-worsening socio-economic and human rights situation in the country during the past year.
“Indeed Zimbabweans have had to endure ever-increasing prices of basic commodities, endless queues, fuel shortages, water rationing, electricity load shedding and massive unemployment, among other challenges, ” Malokele said.
He also said that the scarcity and price hikes of basic commodities symbolize a political inferiority woe of legal standards.
“The shortages and the spiraling prices are just but a symptom of an underlying political crisis of legitimacy, ” he said.
Meanwhile, Molokele said the restoration of confidence and desirable legal standards in Zimbabwe can be achieved by taking heed to the recently launched Roadmap to Economic Recovery, Openness Legitimacy and Democracy (RELOAD) strategy document.
“As part of addressing the deeper political crisis, RELOAD recommends the following five steps as a prerequisite for a return to legitimacy, confidence, and normalcy in Zimbabwe, ” he said.
The five steps being referred to as ‘prerequisite’ are as follows:
“1.Pressure (Political and Diplomatic)
Section 59 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe gives ordinary Zimbabweans the right to petition and pressure their government on any issue of concern. The MDC will thus mobilize Zimbabweans across the spectrum for purposes of attaining national consensus and convergence. Attendant to the political pressure is diplomatic pressure in which the region, Africa and the broader international community will be sensitized so that international pressure can be brought to bear for the regime in Harare to realize that there has to be sincere dialogue for the nation to agree on a way out of this mammoth national crisis.
“2.National Dialogue
We envisage sincere and honest dialogue among Zimbabweans to locate a prudent exit point out of this monumental national crisis. As such a credible, bankable, legitimate process of dialogue fully guaranteed by the international community with specific deliverables benchmarks and timelines through a mutually agreed and acceptable facilitator is a must.
“3.National Transitional Mechanism
The sincere dialogue must yield an agreed framework and agreed positions that must spur this country from the current political and economic gridlock arising out of a pilfered plebiscite. The terms and details around this National Transitional Mechanism must be agreed at the dialogue table.
“4.Comprehensive Reform Agenda
Zimbabwe requires comprehensive reforms that include political, economic, security, legal, media, and electoral reforms. A robust reform agenda will have to be implemented as a prelude to poising the country towards a genuinely free, fair and credible electoral process.
“5.Free and Fair Elections
The holding of a truly free, fair and credible election is paramount to Zimbabwe. It is only such an election that will return the confidence and legitimacy that the country sorely needs so that it takes its rightful place among the family of nations. It thus answers to the legitimacy question that has dogged Zimbabwe since 2000.”
Malokele added that the MDC is absolutely sure that the RELOAD has the capacity to restore the legitimacy, betterment of the majority’s life and get rid of the hopelessness economic atmosphere in Zimbabwe.
“The MDC firmly believes that this roadmap will address the deeper crisis of legitimacy that has brought the country and its citizens to the despicable plumbing depths of penury, starvation, and suffering, ” he said.
The RELOAD was launched on the 11th of July 2019 as an absolute proposal to fluidise the deadlocked current irksome political and economic situation.
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