According to Daily News, MDC's Spokesperson, Jacob Mafume, said this following Vice President, Kembo Mohadi's recent remarks that Zanu-PF was not interested in coalition talks with the MDC. "We haven't heard anything of that sort or an approach from those that would want a government of national unity with us.

"If they want to discuss with us they can come, but certainly not on a GNU because we have got the mandate emanating from the two thirds majority in Parliament. We can do it alone unlike in 2008 where we had a sort of hung Parliament. This time there isn’t going to be that kind of arrangement," the state-owned Herald newspaper quoted Mohadi as saying.

Mohadi also said that the MDC had to first recognise Mnangagwa as the country’s leader before any talks could start.

But Mafume took a swipe at the ruling party, saying it was the one which needed to be rescued from the country's current economic crisis and not the MDC. "It is them Zanu-PF who stole a vote, they are being hounded by their theft. It is them who were rejected by all credible observer missions and it is them Zanu-PF who are failing to get a single cent even from the Chinese.

"They have caused fuel shortages and taxing people, it is not us who have begged them for a unity government. It not us who have suggested that they be a unity government but it is them who are being haunted by the ghost of illegitimacy," Mafume was quoted as saying by Daily News.

--News24--