{"id":33260,"date":"2021-01-22T21:40:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T19:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=33260"},"modified":"2021-01-22T19:09:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T17:09:36","slug":"khupe-refuses-to-vacate-parly-position-for-mwonzora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/khupe-refuses-to-vacate-parly-position-for-mwonzora","title":{"rendered":"Khupe Refuses To Vacate Parly Position For Mwonzora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Thokozani Khupe is reportedly refusing to vacate the Leader of the Opposition in Parliament position to pave way for MDC-T\u2019s newly elected president Douglas Mwonzora.<\/p>\n<p>Khupe was expected to vacate the office following her defeat at the MDC-T\u2019s recently held Supreme Court-sanctioned Extraordinary congress.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress was aimed at electing the substantive heir to the party\u2019s late founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai whose demise ushered the MDC into a leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Khupe\u2019s actions are likely to prolong the power crisis in the MDC, an issue which some thought would be addressed by the congress.<\/p>\n<p>The Business Times reported last week that top MDC-T leaders, Mwonzora, deputy president Elias Mudzuri, Khupe and the party\u2019s national chairman, Morgan Komichi were supposed to meet, to fast track Mwonzora\u2019s elevation as the official Leader of the Opposition in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The publication reports that the meeting did not take place after it emerged that Khupe was adamant she would not let go her position in Parliament on a silver platter.<\/p>\n<p>Well-placed sources within the party\u2019s leadership told Business Times that the situation was tense in the camp with Mwonzora and Khupe not agreeing on the way forward over the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Business Times, Witness Dube, MDC-T spokesperson said:<\/p>\n<p>Our party leaders are yet to agree on the position of leader of opposition in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>We were supposed to have a meeting last week as leaders of the party and finalise the matter, but it did not happen.<\/p>\n<p>I understand our principal wants the matter to be discussed together with the reappointment of Mudzuri as one of the vice presidents and Komichi as the chairman of the party.<\/p>\n<p>Komichi also confirmed that Khupe and Mwonzora were not agreeing on how to move forward. He said:<\/p>\n<p>Madam Khupe does not want to give away her post as leader of opposition in Parliament arguing that there is need for proper procedures to be followed and that she must be allowed to finish her tenure as leader of opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Thokozani Khupe refused to recognise Mwonzora\u2019s victory accusing him of manipulating the voting process at the congress.<\/p>\n<p>Party insiders say Khupe had agreed to be Mwonzora\u2019s deputy on condition that she was the only vice president and that she retained the Leader of Opposition in Parliament post.<\/p>\n<p>A leader of Opposition in Parliament enjoys the same perks as of a cabinet minister.<\/p>\n<p><b>More: Business Times<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Thokozani Khupe is reportedly refusing to vacate the Leader of the Opposition in Parliament position to pave way for MDC-T\u2019s newly elected president Douglas Mwonzora. Khupe was expected to vacate the office following her defeat at the MDC-T\u2019s recently held Supreme Court-sanctioned Extraordinary congress. The Congress was aimed at electing the substantive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":33259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,10,15],"tags":[1493,2189,1793,1682,1810,1809,1520,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-33260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-homepage-english","9":"category-parties","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-douglas-mwonzora","14":"tag-elias-mudzuri","15":"tag-morgan-tsvangirai","16":"tag-morgen-komichi","17":"tag-thokozani-khupe","18":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Khupe Refuses To Vacate Parly Position For Mwonzora - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Thokozani Khupe is reportedly refusing to vacate the Leader of the Opposition in Parliament position to pave way for MDC ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/khupe-refuses-to-vacate-parly-position-for-mwonzora\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Khupe Refuses To Vacate Parly Position For Mwonzora\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Thokozani Khupe is reportedly refusing to vacate the Leader of the Opposition in Parliament position to pave way for MDC ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/khupe-refuses-to-vacate-parly-position-for-mwonzora\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-01-22T19:40:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-01-22T17:09:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/01\/img-600b06aa52906.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"548\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/khupe-refuses-to-vacate-parly-position-for-mwonzora\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/khupe-refuses-to-vacate-parly-position-for-mwonzora\",\"name\":\"Khupe Refuses To Vacate Parly Position For Mwonzora - 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