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Tanzania: Continued Dialogue On Mwafaka Needed
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The Citizen (Dar es Salaam)
EDITORIAL
13 May 2008
Posted to the web 13 May 2008
During the past few weeks, parties to the Zanzibar peace accord have engaged themselves in a heated debate on what had been agreed upon between CCM and the opposition Civic United Front (CUF) teams during their 14-month of secret negotiations.
Some top CCM leaders have accussed the opposition party of being 'insincere' by publicising 'inconclusive' agreements to win the sympathy of foreign countries. They claim that the sensitive issues of power sharing was discussed but never agreed upon during the talks because the 2005 election was conducted under a system in which the winner takes all.
The opposition party on its part, blames CCM of backpeddling on this key agenda, claiming that the formation of a government of national unity had been discussed and endorsed by the negotiations teams. It believes that the agenda was only turned down by the ruling party due to pressure from some die hard politicians from the Isles who fear that power sharing would pave the way for free and fair election in 2010. And that the two parties had even agreed cabinet posts to be shared with CUF.
Whatever the truth is, we view the debate as not helpful to efforts meant to advance national interests like sustainment of peace, unity and development of the country as it simply hightens tension among the people. We believe continued dialogue would help find the way forward by creating mutual trust and harmony among the members of the two parties and their supporters in efforts to solve the long-standing political impasse in Isles.
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That is why we recommend to the two parties to convene another round of talks to thrush out controversial issues to normalise the Zanzibar political situation.
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