{"id":88066,"date":"2023-12-09T21:25:25","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T19:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/ccc-official-urges-bulawayo-voters-to-elect-zapu-mp-candidates"},"modified":"2023-12-10T01:16:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T23:16:14","slug":"ccc-official-urges-bulawayo-voters-to-elect-zapu-mp-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/ccc-official-urges-bulawayo-voters-to-elect-zapu-mp-candidates","title":{"rendered":"CCC Official Urges Bulawayo Voters To Elect ZAPU MP Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Citizens\u2019 Coalition for Change (CCC) top official David Coltart, who is also Bulawayo Mayor, has urged Zimbabweans to vote for ZAPU National Assembly candidates in by-elections being held today.<\/p>\n<p>Posting on X this Saturday, the former Minister of Education said that ZAPU is a democratic party that will serve the interests of the people of Bulawayo better than ZANU PF of CCC candidates sponsored by Sengezo Tshabangu. <b>He said:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Now that our 5 MP candidates in Bulawayo have been unlawfully barred from standing for election I urge citizens to vote where possible for ZAPU MP candidates. ZAPU is a democratic party and they will serve our interests much better than ZANU PF or pseudo ZANU PF candidates.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after the High Court nullified the nomination of CCC candidates sponsored by Nelson Chamisa.<\/p>\n<p>Tshabangu, who claims to be the party\u2019s interim secretary general, recalled the legislators in October claiming that they had ceased to be CCC members.<\/p>\n<p>His lawyer Lewis Uriri argued that the MPs should be barred from contesting under the name of a party from which they were recalled. Justice Katiyo granted Tshabangu\u2019s request.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Citizens\u2019 Coalition for Change (CCC) top official David Coltart, who is also Bulawayo Mayor, has urged Zimbabweans to vote for ZAPU National Assembly candidates in by-elections being held today. Posting on X this Saturday, the former Minister of Education said that ZAPU is a democratic party that will serve the interests of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":88065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[15485,1493,2189,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-88066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-policy","9":"tag-2023-by-elections","10":"tag-africa-press","11":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","12":"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>CCC Official Urges Bulawayo Voters To Elect ZAPU MP Candidates - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Citizens\u2019 Coalition for Change (CCC) top official David Coltart, who is also Bulawayo Mayor, has urged Zimbabweans to vo ...\" \/>\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\/ccc-official-urges-bulawayo-voters-to-elect-zapu-mp-candidates\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CCC Official Urges Bulawayo Voters To Elect ZAPU MP Candidates\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Citizens\u2019 Coalition for Change (CCC) top official David Coltart, who is also Bulawayo Mayor, has urged Zimbabweans to vo ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/ccc-official-urges-bulawayo-voters-to-elect-zapu-mp-candidates\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-12-09T19:25:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-12-09T23:16:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2023\/12\/sm_1702144689.275407.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"448\" \/>\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=\"1 minute\" \/>\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\/ccc-official-urges-bulawayo-voters-to-elect-zapu-mp-candidates\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/ccc-official-urges-bulawayo-voters-to-elect-zapu-mp-candidates\",\"name\":\"CCC Official Urges Bulawayo Voters To Elect ZAPU MP Candidates - 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