Tsvangirai to address Parliament
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai will on Wednesday make his maiden speech to Parliament.
The Prime Minister’s Press Secretary James Maridadi confirmed,”He will make his maiden speech to Parliament on Wednesday.”
Tsvangirai, the leader of the country’s former main opposition majority party the MDC, was sworn in as Prime Minister on February 11 after agreeing to join a power-sharing government with President Robert Mugabe.
Under the power-sharing deal, Mugabe retained his job and most of his executive powers while Tsvangirai as Prime Minister also enjoys some executive authority.
According to the country’s laws, Tsvangirai must be an MP in order to be eligible to occupy the office of Prime Minister.
Mugabe, who in the past had labelled Tsvangirai a Western puppet and vowed never to allow the MDC leader to rule Zimbabwe, agreed to share power after his ZANU PF party last year lost parliamentary elections to the two MDC formations.
Posted by Wellington Chadehumbe
on March 3, 2009. Filed under Politics.
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