Candidate Independent Selection Process (CISP) was the worst; it was too brazen. That is the reason why no-one could instruct successful candidates not to attend the inauguration (of Emmerson Mnangagwa) in solidarity with the president (Nelson Chamisa).
That is why citizenocracy could not whip anyone to resign from parliament in solidarity with the president when he ‘resigned’ from CCC Zimbabwe and politics.
CISP delivered all the candidates that the ordinary party supporters did not like.
I can give you an example like Dr Thokozani Khupe who campaigned against the then incumbent CCC president in a messy succession brawl, and contested against him in national polls to the extend of openly siding with Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Previous process never produced such an outcome like CISP delivered.
Do you think citizenocracy could whip a candidate like Hon. Zivai Mhetu who, only a year before had contested as a candidate for Douglas Mwonzora’s MDC – T party in the 2022 by-elections, and just over a year later, in 2023 CISP delivered him as an MP candidate in the same Epworth constituency – no previous process has ever delivered outcome my brother @drjaytee87. I stand to be proven otherwise.
He literally was pasting his new CCC posters with Chamisa’s face over his clearly visible not so old ones with Mwonzora’s face.
Do you think citizenocracy would whip such an MP, who openly used hard cash to buy his way onto the party candidates list, into refusing to get sworn into parliament in solidarity with the president whose vote was rigged?
Hon. Mhetu is the example of numerous other candidates who parted with hard cash to get onto the party candidates list.
Paitova nema known prices ekuti unobvisa marii uye uchipa ani kuti uite either councillor or MP.
Then unlike previous processes, CISP openly allowed people like Southerton MP Hon. Bridget Nyandoro to use Clitocurrency as she is publicly admitting to herself.
There are many like her and citizenocracy can’t whip them into resigning from parliament in solidarity with the president’s ‘resignation’ from CCC and politics.
Unofunga kuti ungaudza someone who lost the Berekamwana popular contest but used her precious clitocurrency to resign akakuteerera?
She was put on the candidates list as a way to pay her child-maintenance and silence her so it is so normal to her stay in parliament unless the appointing authority offers her an alternative maintenance fees payment plan.
Before CISP, no process in the opposition party produced this stinker, please correct me @drjaytee87.
Unlike previous processes in which if you lose the popularity contest you are done, CISP openly allowed candidates candidates who lost what resembled the popular vote, Berekamwana, to get onto the party candidates list ahead of winners and in most cases without any explanation, transparency of accountability.
The best explanation anyone could have was ‘Yes you won the Berekamwana process, yes you worked hard on the ground, yes you have better qualifications – but you failed to prove your loyalty to the creator.’
CISP can never be overly justified based on both its process and its results.
We do have to agree that CISP, in some cases where the processes were not abused (which are many by the way) it produced wonderful candidates – but in numerous other cases, it produced political stinkers; just like the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission which along the years and in some cases in the 2023 general elections – @ZECzim produced wonderful MPs, Councillors, Senators and Mayors, but in a significant other cases, it produced STINKERS which justify its overall condemnation!
Makomborero Haruzivishe: ACTSA-UK Advisory Council ~ Law and Politics student at University of Kent ~ Zimbabwe National Students Union Secretary General 2015-2017 ~ Southern Africa Human Rights Defender of the year 2021.
