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Douglas Mwonzora THE six chief election agents representing losing candidates at the just ended MDC-T extraordinary congress (EOC) are supporting the decision of former acting president Thokozani Khupe to cancel the chaotic voting process held Sunday at the Harare International Conference Centre. Midway through the voting process to choose late MDC founder leader, Morgan Tsvangirai successor, Khupe, who was far behind Douglas Mwonzora in terms of votes, attempted to cancel the election citing voting irregularities. She went on to suspend Mwonzora as MDC-T secretary-general accusing him of loo...

Mwonzora wins MDC T presidency amid controversy Political Editor SKELETONS are now tumbling in the MDC-T party amid allegations that Mr Douglas Mwonzora, the runaway winner in Sunday’s disputed party presidential elections, misused nearly $6 million of party funds. However, Mr Mwonzora who polled 883 votes to Dr Khupe’s miserly 118 votes, to become the main opposition party president said the allegations are unfounded and meant to tarnish his name. Mr Mwonzora and Dr Khupe were slugging it out against Messrs Morgen Komichi and Elias Mudzuri who respectively got nine and 14 votes in a poll...

By Robert Tapfumaneyi THE six chief election agents representing losing candidates at the just ended MDC-T extraordinary congress (EOC) are supporting the decision of former acting president Thokozani Khupe to cancel the chaotic voting process held Sunday at the Harare International Conference Centre. Midway through the voting process to choose late MDC founder leader, Morgan Tsvangirai successor, Khupe, who was far behind Douglas Mwonzora in terms of votes, attempted to cancel the election citing voting irregularities. She went on to suspend Mwonzora as MDC-T secretary-general accusing him o...

The interim Secretary of the opposition MDC-T, Douglas Mwonzora has been suspended from the party by the interim party president, Thokozani Khupe, following the chaos that rocked the party’s extraordinary congress held at the Harare International Conference Centre this Sunday. Morgen Komichi and Khupe left the HIIC in paraffin speed as they were being attacked by individuals allegedly aligned to Mwonzora. Senator Mwonzora says he cannot be dismissed from the party by a fellow candidate. The congress was meant to elect the party’s substantive heir to the late founding leader Morgan Tsvangi...

So, Dr. Khupe, you can willy-nilly appoint people who are supposed to be elected by Congress, yet Tsvangirai could not?  Source:   Reading from a local daily publication, my attention was drawn to a passage which read: “Mwonzora’s team protested over Khupe’s gap-filling which brought in her backers, treasurer-general Chief Ndlovu and spokesperson Khaliphani Phugeni. Khupe referred to a part of the constitution that empowers her as party leader to appoint members to key posts to avoid avoid” Section 6.4.4.1 of The 2014 Constitution of the MDC reads “The National Standing Committee...