Tsvangirai Mocked By US Govt Official
1 July 2015
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A top US and senior Congressman has derided MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s recent boycott of elections and Tsvangirai’s plot to withdraw his MPs from parliament, while directly ridiculing him for his altering of the party’s constitution so he can rule it forever.
Early this year Morgan Tsvangirai ordered all his MPs to withdraw from parliament. This came at a time when the opposition leader also pulled his party from the race for the just ended by-elections which have seen Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF gaining its first stronghold majority since independence in 1980.
Tsvangirai then launched an anti MP crusade against his legislators who campaign for their seats with their funds and the party gets the glory. The move which was seen to be contemptuous of Tsvangirai’s faithfuls led to them vocalising, “we even bring to the party the only money there is from the government Political Parties Finance Act share; The party is really a franchise that we trade under and fund.”
The MPs yesterday however received a boost US Congressman Gregory Simpkins, a director in the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organisations, who sharply criticised Tsvangirai’s moves.
He said that opposition parties cannot make it until they stand out to fight the system from within, adding that stay aways are only counterproductive.
“Oftentimes we have heard the opposition saying it is tough to compete, they have to find a way of being effective rather than just saying it is too tough to compete so we are not going to take part. If you do not take part in an election process, how can you criticise something that you did not even test?” Simpkins said.
He added, “when you test the process you can say we tried to register our candidates or observers were turned away, you can point to examples. If you are not a part of it at all, then it is as good as there is no opposition.”
Simpkins arrived in the country for a fact-finding mission to identify ways of mending relations between Harare and Washington.
He continued,“for us sometimes the Democratic Party or the Republican Party is successful, sometimes they are partially successful. When we lose we do not take to the streets, we do not always go to the courts, we do not get angry, but we go back, consider what happened and prepare for the next election and that is what you have to do.”
He also appeared to directly knife Morgan Tsvangirai whose party is now under his sole control after he altered its constitution, saying the US political system was not built on personalities.
“However, when you start a political party in a country that is relatively new, very often the personalities override the ideology of the party, people vote for the person, ethnic groups. You feel that you started something and think that you best understand how things are supposed to be done, but over time you realise that does not work,” he said.
“It takes time and African countries are not going to do that overnight either. It takes time for people to realise that it is not all about me.
“I think there is a lot of frustration on losing elections and the thinking that the people leading the party are not serving their interests so they leave thinking they can do it better.”

10 Replies to “Tsvangirai Mocked By US Govt Official”

  1. So anyone who criticizes MDC is a Zanu PF supporter; you really are a dim wit!

  2. No the real idiot is one who will not accept that A is corrupt regardless of the evidence proving that A is indeed corrupt just because he or she is a member of the party led by A.
    Let me state here and now that Mugabe is a corrupt and murderous tyrant because there is a mountain of evidence to prove that he is.
    Let me also state it here and now that Tsvangirai is corrupt and incompetent because there is a mountain of evidence to prove that too!
    In short, I go where the evidence leads me! Can you say the same?

  3. Well said, this zanoid idiot masquerading as a political analyst has been debugged!
    Wiribheti ndakambokutaurira. You can fool some people some time, not even all the time, shame.

  4. Vana Wilbert vanhu veZANU, you intimidated all the lively online characters and they disappeared.We had Chando Kupisa, Chemical Ali, Chitoca you name them.They gave their ideas and you threatened them.The only man standing we all know him.And you are on him.The problem with you is that anyone who does not think the ZANU way is an idiot!!!1 Really?

  5. Idiots are quick to call other idiots.Which economic crisis did you deal with besides coming up with stupid ideas which are mere paper prints.Fools like you will forever live as you can not see the good beyond your ZANU gabbage system.When ideas are finished you start targeting innocent civilians.Son of a bitch!!!!!

  6. We have been “dealing with the economic crisis” all these last 35 years you dim wit! It has not changed anything and hence you rightly calling it a crisis!
    ZimAsset is dead in the water, Mugabe failed to get any donor to bankroll that hare-brain scheme – not even the Chinese, they are happy to join in the looting and plunder of our resources but will give up a fraction of the loot to bankroll ZimAsset!
    The Zimbabwe economy will need far reaching economic reforms to end the chronic waste of resources due to three and half decades of mismanagement and corruption. Since Mugabe and Zanu PF will never implement these reforms, we would not be in this mess if they had done so, the only way out if to force the tyrant and his cabal to give up power. The only accepted way Zanu PF will accept giving up power is by forcing they to hold free and fair elections and for that we need political reforms.
    MDC’s strategy of boycotting elections will never deliver any meaningful political reforms and that is what Congressman Simpkins is saying. You have got the wrong end of the stick and your wittering is completely out of line. You are just an idiot with a propensity to lasso himself, keep your hand at the level of your eye!

  7. Tsvangirai has taken part in all the elections since the MDC was launched in 1999 until the July 2013 elections to “test the process”, as Congressman Simpkins would say. Sadly he has failed to come up with any example of vote rigging by Zanu PF even when the vote rigging was blatant.
    Congressman’s advise is damn good but, sadly, it is wasted on someone like Tsvangirai; he has no clue what he will be testing for so how will he ever know when he has found it!

  8. If Simpkins is not a ghost, please tell him that the constitution of Zimbabean parliament states that once you cross floor in parliament you automatically seize to be a member of parliament.A bi election has to be held.USA says it guards jealously its constitution and the rights of gays, dogs and cats.It is therefore the right of Zimbabwe to exercise its parliamentary constitution by ejecting the renewal team, which is now getting rotten themselves before they renew anything.
    People of Zimbabwe will never be swayed by focus on Tsvangirai on daily basis.The issue is clear for everyone.Deal with the economic crisis and Zimasset.Denigrating Tsvangirai will never raise the standards of ordinary citizens’ lives.Moreover the official talked about is a ghost

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