By Staff Writer
ZIMBABWE’s 9th parliament officially dissolved Tuesday a few hours before the nation went for polls.
It had served a complete five years long term spanning between 2018 to 2023 , passing through the world’s darkest era of Covid19 which saw the country losing thousands of its citizens.
Notably a raft of laws were passed during its tenure to include the Patriotic Act and the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Act.
Prominent characters such as Joseph Chinotimba of Zanu-PF and CCC’s Tendai Biti will not make it to the 10th parliament following their loss to rivals within their parties during the internal parties processes.
Other stakeholder believe the ninth parly would be remembered for the bloodletting which saw dozens of opposition MPs recalled from the house by MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora after a bitter party fallout in 2020.
The recalls triggered multiple by-elections which saw some MPs initially elected on MDC Alliance tickets 2018 bouncing back under a new identity, as CCC.
The current parliament would also be remembered for failing to rein in an overbearing executive that detoured the house and muscled in some unpopular decisions which included purchase of fire tenders from Belarus outside tender and awarding of hefty bonuses on ministers and judges outside the budget.
The adjournment of parliament came as opposition lawmakers were still demanding that Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube comes and explain how he planned to remedy the continued erosion of civil servants’ wages within the current pricing disorder.
Norton legislator Temba Mliswa also demanded the summoning of Ncube to parliament to explain how he bestowed unbudgeted US$400,000 pay.
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