{"id":48581,"date":"2021-10-20T12:59:57","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T10:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=48581"},"modified":"2021-10-20T12:43:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T10:43:15","slug":"chamisa-desperate-for-by-elections-to-regain-lost-ground-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chamisa-desperate-for-by-elections-to-regain-lost-ground-analyst","title":{"rendered":"Chamisa Desperate For By-elections To Regain Lost Ground \u2013 Analyst"},"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>Knox Chitiyo, an associate fellow at the UK-based Chatham House Africa Programme this week said MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa, is desperate for parliamentary and local council by-elections to regain some credibility as Zimbabwe heads towards the 2023 national elections.<\/p>\n<p>Chitiyo was speaking on the Political Economy and Business Environment in Zimbabwe hosted by African Business.<\/p>\n<p>Over 60 MPs and 80 councillors MDC Alliance were recalled from office by the rival MDC-T led by Douglas Mwonzora for \u201cceasing to be MDC-T members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other MPs from Chamisa\u2019s faction have also defected to join the MDC-T while scores of after senior party officials in Chamisa\u2019s faction have left in a huff and joined the Zanu PF.<\/p>\n<p>Chitiyo said the MDC Alliance had also been hit hard by Covid-19 as the opposition party was unable to hold public meetings and had in the process lost considerable support.<\/p>\n<p>The academic, however, admitted Chamisa still had considerable influence among the young urban community. Most of the MDC MPs and councillors who were recalled were elected in urban constituencies. Chitiyo said:<\/p>\n<p>General elections are scheduled for 2023. There are supposed to be by-elections, but because of Covid, we don\u2019t know if and when they will happen. Chamisa is really desperate for by-elections because he feels he might win some and regain some credibility.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the Chamisa opposition has lost quite a lot of ground. It\u2019s possible they might claw it back when Covid ends, but he\u2019s got a lot of work to do.<\/p>\n<p>President Emmerson Mnangagwa last year banned the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) from holding by-elections as part of the government\u2019s efforts to contain the spread of the deadly Covid-19 global pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Chitiyo also doubted Mnangagwa\u2019s continued grip on power as Zimbabwe\u2019s leader due to high-level corruption in government, and the worsening political and socio-economic crises in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Chitiyo added that Mnangagwa\u2019s age and the tensions between him and Vice President Chiwenga are a factor.<\/p>\n<p>More: NewZimbabwe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Knox Chitiyo, an associate fellow at the UK-based Chatham House Africa Programme this week said MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa, is desperate for parliamentary and local council by-elections to regain some credibility as Zimbabwe heads towards the 2023 national elections. Chitiyo was speaking on the Political Economy and Business Environment in Zimbabwe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":48580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,35,12,15],"tags":[1493,2189,64,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-48581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-head-lines","9":"category-homepage-english","10":"category-policy","11":"category-twitter","12":"tag-africa-press","13":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","14":"tag-nelson-chamisa","15":"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>Chamisa Desperate For By-elections To Regain Lost Ground \u2013 Analyst - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Knox Chitiyo, an associate fellow at the UK-based Chatham House Africa Programme this week said MDC Alliance leader, Nel ...\" \/>\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\/chamisa-desperate-for-by-elections-to-regain-lost-ground-analyst\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chamisa Desperate For By-elections To Regain Lost Ground \u2013 Analyst\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Knox Chitiyo, an associate fellow at the UK-based Chatham House Africa Programme this week said MDC Alliance leader, Nel ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chamisa-desperate-for-by-elections-to-regain-lost-ground-analyst\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-10-20T10:59:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-10-20T10:43:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/10\/img-616ff2a1cfb81.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"799\" \/>\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\/chamisa-desperate-for-by-elections-to-regain-lost-ground-analyst\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chamisa-desperate-for-by-elections-to-regain-lost-ground-analyst\",\"name\":\"Chamisa Desperate For By-elections To Regain Lost Ground \u2013 Analyst - 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