Zimbabwe now a Coconut Republic

While the Movement for Democratic Change has decided to concentrate all their efforts on the appointments of Gideon Gono as the Reserve Bank Governor and Johannes Tomana as the Attorney General, Mugabe is refusing to call for any by-election.

The Zimbabwean Constitution is clear on when a vacant Parliamentary seat must be filled. This failure by Mugabe to call for elections to fill the vacant seats makes all Members of Parliament lack legal mandates to execute their duties as legal Representatives of the Zimbabwean constituents.

How do you explain a system where more than 10 Constituents are not represented in Parliament yet laws that affect them are passed daily?

Well, as they say, the vampire state does not care about nor represent the people. It sucks the economic vitality out of the people. Eventually, however, it metastasizes into a coconut republic and implodes.

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