Faced with mounting dissatisfaction within his formation of the Movement for Democratic Change, Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has called for an urgent meeting with his partners in the country's chronically troubled national unity government.Senior MDC officials have warned Mr. Tsvangirai that six of the party’s members of Parliament are at risk of losing their seats due to prosecutions by judicial authorities loyal to President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF whom they accuse of bringing unfounded criminal charges.
The party boycotted a cabinet meeting Monday over the widening pattern of prosecutions which have landed one Manicaland province lawmaker in prison for seven years.
MDC sources say party leaders and members are increasingly unhappy with Mr. Tsvangirai’s defense of the unity government while his own party members are being targeted.
Political analyst Glen Mpani of Cape Town, South Africa, told reporter Blessing Zulu of VOA's Studio 7 for Zimbabwe that Mr. Tsvangirai’s meeting on Monday with Mr. Mugabe and Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara is unlikely to be fruitful.
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