Deep Dive: NO Congress, NO Constitution, NO Primary Elections, No Democracy
Brian Rungano Temba
A child that is afraid of the dark is pardoned, but a man who fears daylight is ridiculed.
The self-appointed Change Champions are haunted by the inevitability of internal power change so much that they have sacrificed democracy to delay it.
CCC deputy spokesperson Felix Magalela Sibanda recently told a local paper that the opposition will not have primary elections ahead of this year’s Harmonised elections.
In his statement, which was marred with inconsistencies and self-conflicting antics, he said the CCC will use an unconventional method to choose their candidates.
The yellow dread’s paranoia of external influences in their internal processes has resulted in them experimenting with mob politics.
Without a Constitution, the legal term is definitely a mob.
According to Sibanda, the CCC will conduct a census of members who understand the party’s rules on who will represent their ward and constituency under the yellow card.
There was no clarity of what rules these were since there is no constitution for the one year old mob.
Without structures, it was impossible to run internal processes, especially when the leader of the CCC, Nelson Chamisa, continues to have nightmares of his ousting.
Only his trusted and most loyal liutenants will be undertaking the selection process.
Sibanda also said that the candidates would not be imposed by external forces.
He said nothing of them being imposed by internal forces.
Another area left in the grey is that of self-imposing candidates like CCC activist Damison Damison of Epworth, who Sibanda confirmed will be standing for CCC in his constituency.
However, one wonders if the experimental consensus was done in Epworth or Meikles hotel over expensive whisky.
The purpose of primary elections, according to the United States Overseas Vote Commission, is to measure voter turnout for the final election.
An enquiry that CCC is conveniently evading.
Apart from gauging turnout, it is chiefly a platform for the majority vote to decide who represents the people. Classical Democracy.
Whether to consolidate his power or to hide his intentions from his immediate threats like Tendai Biti, Job Sikhala, and Charlton Hwende, Democracy has been slain.
Ruling out primary elections is gagging the voice of the people.
For a self-proclaimed Citizen initiative it is sounding more and more exclusive and reserved to a clique of lawyers.
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