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HARARE(ZimEye)-President Robert Mugabe has allocated contested key ministries to his Zanu-PF party in a show of open defiance to let go of power in an inclusive government with the opposition.
Mugabe announced allocations in a government extra-ordinary gazette published late Friday in which he allocated to his party the powerful ministries of defence, home affairs-in charge of the police and finance, a crucial portfolio to the resuscitation of the economy.
The allocation was done despite Friday's agreement to recall the mediator former South African President Thabo Mbeki to mediate over disputed ministries.
The political parties had been deadlocked over the allocation of key ministries which ZANU PF is refusing to cede to the opposition.
The opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party has scoffed Mugabe's move as jeopardizing a fragile power sharing deal signed on the 15th of September.
MDC spokesperson Nelson Chamisa said the opposition had not agreed to the allocation.
"This is ZANU-PF's arrogant wish list that puts the whole deal into jeopardy. It is unilateral, contemptuous and outrageous," Chamisa said.
"The MDC totally and absolutely rejects this nonsense. ZANU-PF is taking people for a ride and there is a price for that."
The September power-sharing deal retained Mugabe as president and chairperson of the cabinet, and Tsvangirai, as prime minister, would head a council of ministers supervising the cabinet.
Chamisa added: "The published list of ministries is a product of unilateral,contemptuous and outrageous machinations by Zanu PF. In fact, it is a giant act of madness which puts the whole deal into jeopardy. Zanu PF cannot nocturnally allocate ministries barely hours after the three principals agreed to disagree by referring the matter to the mediator after a logjam over all key ministries."
ZANU-PF will have 15 seats in the cabinet, Tsvangirai's MDC 13 and a splinter MDC faction led by Arthur Mutambara three posts, giving the opposition a combined majority.
The political impasse has not helped ordinary Zimbabweans who are suffering owing to food shortages, water and foreign currency to import drugs and other essentials.
On Wednesday Zimbabwe's inflation short to new heights of 231 million percent, the world's highest. Full List Of Allocated Ministries -Click Here
