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"Recalling Of MDC Alliance MPs Was Constitutional," - Law Expert

3 years agoThu, 07 May 2020 13:17:13 GMT
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"Recalling Of MDC Alliance MPs Was Constitutional," - Law Expert

Constitutional Law expert, Professor Lovemore Madhuku has said that the recalling of four MDC Alliance MPs from Parliament was in accordance with the Constitution.

He said the remarks on Twitter in response to questions by Open Parly who wanted to know the legality of the move.

Madhuku who was representing Thokozani Khupe in the MDC stewardship case which she eventually won said:

The MPs were recalled in terms of section 129(1)(k) of the Constitution. That section refers to “a political party of which he or she was a member when elected”. Parliament proceeded on the basis that party concerned is the MDC and not MDC ALLIANCE. Only a court can reverse.

His remarks come when MDC members aligned to Nelson Chamisa are saying that the recalling of the legislators is a political move by the ruling ZANU PF.

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They said that Thokozani Khupe who was reinstated by the Supreme Court as the leader of the opposition MDC has no authority to “recall legislators who belong to MDC Alliance since she was reinstated as the leader of the MDC-T.”

Douglas Mwonzora, the reinstated MDC-T Secretary-General says the recalled members had “expelled themselves from the MDC-T, the party they belonged to which joined the MDC Alliance in 2018 and for the purposes of that year’s elections,” therefore they had to be recalled. More: Lovemore Madhuku

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