This follows the dramatic ouster of the MDC-T chairman Lovemore Moyo on Wednesday and indications that a poll would have to be conducted soon to find a replacement.
The Supreme Court ruled that Moyo’s election was unprocedural following a legal challenge by Zanu PF MP Jonathan Moyo and two other MDC MPs.
In 2008, the MDC-T chairman beat MDC’s Paul Themba Nyathi to become the first Speaker who did not come in on a Zanu PF ticket since independence.
He got support from three MDC MPs who went against the party’s advice and voted with MDC-T. The MPs, Abednico Bhebhe (Nkayi South), Njabuliso Mguni (Lupane East) and Norman Mpofu (Bulilima) subsequently lost their seats after they were expelled from the party.
Qhubani Moyo, the MDC organising secretary said the party would soon meet to choose a candidate for one of the top jobs in the unity government.
“We are confident that we will win,” he said. “The other two parties have no choice but to support us.” With just two MPs, the MDC is the power broker in the hung parliament and both Zanu PF and MDC-T have admitted they cannot do without its support.
Zanu PF has indicated that it would not field a candidate in the clearest indication yet that it would go with the original plan where it supported Nyathi’s candidature.
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Ncube may not be in the mood to do Prime Morgan Morgan Tsvangirai any favours after the MDC-T leader refused to fight in his corner in the battle to remove Arthur Mutambara from the deputy prime minister’s post.
Tsvangirai sided with President Robert Mugabe who refused to swear Ncube in as DPM after he ousted Mutambara as leader of the MDC.
In November last year, Veritas, a parliamentary watchdog showed that MDC-T and Zanu PF’s voting strengths in the House of Assembly were balanced at 96 members each.
But a number of MDC-T MPs may not be able to vote because of a clampdown by police.
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<p><img src="images/welsh.jpg" border="0" width="179" height="196" /><br />THE Movement for Democratic Change led by Welshman Ncube says it will field a candidate in the elections for a new Speaker of Parliament and believes both MDC-T and Zanu PF have no choice but to vote with it.</p>
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