Low Turn-Out For Mwonzora’s By-Elections Rally in Highfield

MDC T leader Douglas Mwonzora today launched his party’s March 2022  By-elections campaign in Highfield, at Zororo grounds, with only a handful of supporters in attendance.

Mwonzora’s party is entering the elections as the MDC-Alliance and  held it’s inaugural rally today while across town President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zanu Pf addressed his party’s own by-elections rally in Epworth.

The MDC-Alliance’s supporters didn’t turn up in their numbers, as they tallied up to a couple of hundred, with most of them seeming to be party activists.

However party leader Dougals Mwonzora claimed that there were over 5000 people in attendance.

Speaking at the rally, Mwonzora said that he would eradicate poverty in Zimbabwe if elected to power, adding that his party would tackle the high rate of unemployment.

He also promised free education for primary school education if he were to be elected in 2023.

“We are determined to achieving the reduction and total eradication of poverty, reduction and elimination of unemployment.

“We want to make sure that Zimbabweans have equal access to education, in that regards primary education from grade 1 to grade 7 must be provided completely free,” said Mwonzora

He also promised that the MDC-Alliance would ensure political, social and economic reforms were implemented if elected into power.

“We are determined to bring back positive change for the benefit of our people this will be done through the implementation of the key political, social and economic reforms in our country,” said Mwonzora.

Some of the MDC supporters at the rally expressed confidence that their party would win the elections despite the low turn out of people at their rally.

 

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