Zimbabwe's MDC: two members arrested at parliament
Monday 25 August 2008
Zimbabwe's MDC party says two of its parliamentarians have been arrested, in what they view as a move by ruling ZANU-PF party to reverse the opposition's majority ahead of a vote for a new speaker.
Special Report Struggle for leadership in ZimbabweMonday 25 August 2008
By AFP
Special report on elections in Zimbabwe
A second Zimbabwean lawmaker was arrested Monday in what the opposition said was a bid to reverse the party's unprecedented majority ahead of a parliamentary vote to elect a new speaker.
"Another one of our members of parliament Eliah Jembere has been arrested at parliament," Nelson Chamisam spokesman for the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, told AFP.
"It's clearly a strategy to eliminate our members and reverse our majority in parliament."
Earlier Chamisa said another lawmaker, Shuah Mudiwa, was arrested from parliament, saying he was "literally pulled" out from the building.
"We have been informed they want to arrest 15 MPs. It's all about the vote for the speaker. Nothing to do with the law," he said.
Parliamentary and presidential elections were held in March, setting off months of political unrest after Tsvangirai claimed that veteran leader Robert Mugabe had fixed the presidential result and intimidated his supporters.
Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF party suffered a historic reverse when it won only 97 parliamentary seats. The MDC took 100, while a splinter party formed and led by former MDC politician Arthur Mutambara got 10.
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28/08/2008 14:38:00 Alert a moderator
Help Zimbabwe
By Anonymous -
Anyone who cares out there please help Zimbabwe. We are dying of hunger whilst Mugabe and the military junta are spending state funds sumptuosly. Can you imagine an inflation of 42 000 000%. Mugabe is evil and crazy, he doesnt care because he knows he is illegitimate people no longer want him. He thinks Zimbabwe is his personal property. But why is the world just watching whilst we are dying from hunger because we are denied access to food by a murderor. Africa is a shameful continent it is teaching a bad lesson to dictators, every dictator has to rig election to stay in power by the formation of a GNU. SADC recognize Mugabes rigging as legitimate-there is no hope anymore.
27/08/2008 16:22:27 Alert a moderator
FREE ZIM PEOPLE
By DANIEL D MARTIN - HOLLYWOOD,FLORIDA,USA
This game that criminal pathetic lier Robert Mugabe is playing aims to gain more time for himself in power,keep detaining ,robing and killing Zimbabwans of all collors that would resist to be his slaves
Shame on the whole black community for letting this guy kill,rob and lie while they still critiziced and blame former european collonizers ,almost non existent in today Zim
May this be a hard lesson for them and their blaming game!
25/08/2008 19:15:14 Alert a moderator
Election of Lovemore as speaker of the house
By Concerned south African - Johannesburg
The first vote portends an interesting trend. I understod that a number of MDC parliamenterians had been arrested. The Vote would therefore indicate that some Zanu-PF members voted for Lovemore - at least 2 maybe more!
25/08/2008 15:48:57 Alert a moderator
speaker of parliament-zimbabwe
By Anonyme - zimbabwe
It seems IF ZIMBABWE CONDUCTS NEW ELECTIONS mUGABE WILL LOSE NOW THAT 110 MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT HAVE VOTED FOR MDC INDIVIDUAL