{"id":17499,"date":"2020-01-01T20:29:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T18:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=17499"},"modified":"2020-01-01T20:29:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T18:29:23","slug":"2020-chamisa-focuses-on-winning-rural-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/2020-chamisa-focuses-on-winning-rural-vote","title":{"rendered":"2020 \u2013 Chamisa Focuses On Winning Rural Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE MDC, will in 2020, hold more political campaigns in rural communities where it has performed badly in elections since 2000, party President Nelson <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nelsonchamisa?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">Chamisa<\/a> has announced.<\/p>\n<p>In his New Year\u2019s message to party supporters Wednesday, Chamisa said the party would also continue pushing for electoral reforms ahead of the 2023 elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must strengthen our party and its base with a strong rural focus. Our rural focus must be enhanced. Candidate selection better improved,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2018, the MDC has failed to win any local council or parliamentary seat in by-elections held in rural constituencies with critics blasting the party for concentrating its campaigns in urban areas only. The ruling party \u2013 Zanu PF \u2013 has been dominating by-elections held in rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>Chamisa urged party members to focus on the core business of the MDC, which was to win elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must focus on the core business and sole agenda of the party agenda that is to win elections and attain State power for real change. We must have strong vibrant structures, zero imposition, zero factionalism, zero corruption, zero division and zero writing names of fictitious structures or lists of friends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur party goal is to win elections and attain state power to make a difference in people\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The opposition leader warned incompetent party leaders that he would not hesitate to remove them from office if they failed to deliver.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to radically change and abandon certain negative and divisive tendencies. Indiscipline and malicious gossip will be jettisoned and conflict entrepreneurship will be punished. Those who do not work will lose their positions and those absent will be replaced,\u201d warned Chamisa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE MDC, will in 2020, hold more political campaigns in rural communities where it has performed badly in elections since 2000, party President Nelson Chamisa has announced. 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