Former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa, has hinted that his former colleagues will have no place in his newly launched political movement.
On Friday, Chamisa announced his return to active politics with the launch of Agenda 2026, a broad citizens’ movement aimed at winning the next general election and forming a new government.
Speaking at a press briefing, Chamisa, who left the CCC two years ago, said Agenda 2026 is driven by ordinary citizens and urged people to organise themselves peacefully within their communities.
He added that the new political initiative would not include old structures or figures linked to the CCC, insisting that the future required “new wine skins.” Said Chamisa:
“Everything in the past is not going to be part of the new. You do not use old wine skins to carry the new wine.”
When asked if the new movement would continue operating under what he calls “strategic ambiguity”—a model in which structures and leadership are not publicly defined—Chamisa defended the approach, saying it had strengthened the party’s support base. He said:
“Strategic ambiguity has actually fortified the base, that’s why we won the 2023 elections because the base is clear about what we are doing.
“Strategic ambiguity’s target is not those who support us because they know what we are doing, they know the structures.
“It is the opponent who wants to pry into our affairs that is why they are in sixes and sevens.”
In fact, the CCC did not win the 2023 elections, according to results released by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC).
Chamisa, the party’s presidential candidate, received 44 per cent of the vote, while President Emmerson Mnangagwa of ZANU-PF won 52.6 per cent.
In the parliamentary elections, ZANU-PF was also declared the winner, taking 136 of the 210 seats, compared to 73 for the CCC. One seat was left unassigned following the death of a candidate.
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