A crisis looms after the impending Second All-Stakeholders’ Conference as it has emerged that Article 6 of the Global Political Agreement (GPA) does not specify what would happen in the event parties were deadlocked over the draft constitution.
Report by Everson Mushava
NewsDay is reliably informed that President Robert Mugabe met with his coalition partners yesterday and attempted to sell the well-known Zanu PF position that principals must have the final say in the constitution-making process.
This Zanu PF position has long been rejected by MDC-T leader Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and Welshman Ncube (MDC), who have repeatedly said the process was driven by Parliament through Copac. Sources, however, said Mugabe was determined to have the principals veto the process.
The GPA is silent over what would happen in such an eventuality. It simply states that after the second indaba, the draft charter, accompanied by the national report, should be submitted to Parliament within a month of the conference.
Ncube, after failing to appear in the two past meetings, reportedly due to short notices, att
