Don’t give in, Chamisa urged

BY MOSES MATENGA
POLITICAL observers have urged under-siege opposition leader Nelson Chamisa not to give up on the MDC Alliance name, saying doing so would provide his nemeses Zanu PF and the MDC-T ammunition to crush him ahead of the 2023 harmonised elections.

Chamisa has remained tight-lipped on which name the party will use in the March 26 by-elections after the Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC-T claimed ownership of both the MDC Alliance name and MDC acronym.

Mwonzora early this month wrote to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) seeking to bar Chamisa from using MDC symbols.

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