HARARE (AFP) – Zimbabwe's prime minister has asked the high court to revoke President Robert Mugabe's appointment of provincial governors, court papers said Thursday.
"In my humble view, submission and plea, all of this is plain, clear and simple. Wherever the Constitution obliges the President to act ?in consultation? with me as Prime Minister, he must first secure my agreement," Morgan Tsvangirai said.
"In this instance, the first respondent (Mugabe) did not even consult me on the names appointed. The first respondent is aware of his constitutional obligations. He is aware that he cannot appoint provincial governors without my agreement," Tsvangirai said in the court papers seen by AFP.
A source at Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party confirmed that the prime minister had filed the lawsuit on Wednesday, a move likely to strain the shaky power-sharing government even more.
Tsvangirai formed a government with Mugabe last year to ease tensions in the aftermath of a bloody presidential election and mend an economy ravaged by a nearly decade-long economic crisis.
The work of the government has been hamstrung by haggling over the allocation of top government posts.
The lawsuit came as mediator Jacob Zuma, the South African president, was expected in Harare on Friday to attend to differences threatening the compromise government.
Presidential spokesman and Mugabe's ZANU-PF party officials were not available for comment
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