‘’Our participation in Parliament does not legitimise a process that was illegitimate, and that was not credible. In political economy, when you are an opposition like us, an alternative movement in a socially dominated framework like ours, when you are fighting one of the most complicated authoritarian regimes, on the continent, you do four things. ‘’First thing you do is you protect zones of autonomy, the second thing you do is you build a credible alternative, the third thing you do is you expose and isolate an opponent, and the fourth thing you do is you stretch your opponent. ‘’I view our participating in this election as protecting a zone of autonomy, that space that we got, those 103 seats that we got we have a right and a duty to protect those zones,’’ he said

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“we will continue to push for reforms to the multilateral system – reforms that will make international institutions more effective, inclusive, transparent, accountable, and fit for purpose in this century.” 

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And we agreed with the Clerk Kennedy Chokuda that the election will start at 11am, but we were shocked when we arrived that they had already finished the elections before 10 am

‘’Are there any further nominations?  There being no further nominations, I therefore declare Tsitsi Gezi duly elected to the Office of Deputy Speaker,’