Parties lobby Sadc leaders

INTENSE lobbying of Southern African Development Community (Sadc) leaders by main parties is taking place in the run-up to the Extraordinary Summit on Zimbabwe scheduled for next Monday.

Both Zanu PF and the Movement for Democratic Change are trying frantically to influence the decision of the 15-member body which guaranteed the Global Political Agreement signed on September 15, 2008.
The principals to the Inter-Party Agreement, President Mugabe, MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai and Professor Arthur Mutambara of the smaller formation of the opposition MDC, failed to reach a compromise when they met on Monday this week, prompting the Sadc trio leading that meeting to call a special summit.
The principals met under the auspices of a delegation chaired by President Motlanthe, Sadc Chairman, President Guebuza of Mozambique, Deputy Chairman of the Sadc Organ on Politics, Defence and Security and former South African President Thabo Mbeki, the facilitator in the Zimbabwe Inter-Party Dialogue.
The wider meeting with the Sadc delegation was preceded by a meeting of President Mugabe and Tsvangirai, in which it was reported off the record that Tsvangirai raised the issues of the detention of members of the MDC and civil society on allegations of plotting an insurgency to topple the Zanu PF Government.
It is believed that the MDC formation led by Tsvangirai has sent its list of proposals to individual members of Sadc who were not in Monday’s meeting, ahead of next week’s special summit.

The opposition party rejected proposals by Sadc to “Proceed immediately with the formation of the Inclusive Government as prescribed in the Agreement” and to “swear-in the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Ministers by 24 January 2009 and thereafter proceed to appoint ministers.” They would like Cabinet to be formed once all outstanding issues are resolved.
Zanu PF is said to be pressing for the recognition of the Sadc proposals issued on Monday calling for the immediate formation of an all-inclusive Government.

The party argues that outstanding issues raised by MDC-T should be dealt with after an all-inclusive Government is formed.
Sadc suggested leaving provincial governors in place until a vacancy occurs — a move said by the MDC-T to be against what was agreed in the MoU. The regional group also wants to leave conflict resolution to the Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee which according the Global Political Agreement. MDC says JMIC has no effective power as it will meet “from time to time”.
Tsvangirai and his team did not agree to the Sadc proposals, but put forward proposals of their own which Sadc Executive Secretary Tomaz Salomão said next week’s special summit would consider.


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