ZIMBABWE — Prime Minister-designate and leader of the MDC, Morgan Tsvangirai has come under immense pressure from within the structures and the diplomatic community to announce a pull out of the power sharing deal he entered into with President Robert Mugabe and Arthur Mutambara last month.

 

This follows what one highly placed official described as a dead end on the negotiations for sharing of ministries Saturday when the three politicians met in Harare but failed to break the impasse.

 

 

ZimDaily Sunday established the MDC national executive and council members were nudged into consultations and deliberations after the Saturday meeting in which Mugabe reportedly remained adamant he would only allow the main MDC led by Tsvangirai to take over the ministry of Finance, and probably Foreign Affairs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mugabe wants his Zanu (PF) party, in power since 1980 but infamous for bringing Zimbabwe on its knees, to retain the rest of key ministries including Defence, Home Affairs, Justice and Local Government.

Senior MDC officials revealed to ZimDaily there was a motion to ask Tsvangirai to pull out of the deal this week, which we confirmed is also the position of most foreign diplomats based in Harare.

MDC spokesman, Nelson Chamisa confirmed there would be leadership meetings this week and vehemently blasted Zanu (PF).

"We have our leadership meetings this week, that's all I can say," he said.

 

"But regarding the impasse, Zanu (PF) are in denial. They are not willing to truly share power. But we will not allow them to do this because we are the senior partner.

 

We won the elections and have more support than them, so there is no way we can allow these people to abuse our country.

 

People are dying, people are suffering and we can't continue with this chicanery. They have no option but to give in and allow things to happen in a normal way."

We have it on good authority that Mugabe and Tsvangirai came out of the Saturday meeting in high tempers because it had degenerated into a fiasco and bitter row.

 

Tsvangirai is said to have openly accused Mugabe of being insincere, to which the aged dictator retorted by his usual allegations that the MDC leader is a front of the west and for that reason is demanding key ministries so that he would surrender authority to his alleged masters.

Mugabe's chief negotiator and ally Patrick Chinamasa denied Sunday that there is a deadlock but also fired a salvo on MDC. "They are creating problems unnecessarily through misrepresenting things and making all sorts of noise," he said.

 

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