Mwinyi still waiting for ACT-Wazalendo response to form GNU, names cabinet
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Dr Mwinyi did not appoint any deputy minister saying he was eyeing a small cabinet.
Dar es Salaam. Zanzibar president Hussein Mwinyi has on Thursday, November 19 named his cabinet as he waits for the opposition to respond to the call to form a government of the national unity (GNU).
Dr Mwinyi formed 15 ministries but appointed 13 ministers and left the ministry of health, community development, gender and children and that of trade and industry development vacant, waiting for the Alliance for Change and Transparency (ACT Wazalendo) to fill them.
Dr Mwinyi who contested on the ruling CCM officially won the Zanzibar presidential polls after garnering 76.27 percent of the total votes cast against.
The constitution of Zanzibar requires the presidential winner to form the GNU with the party that gets at least 10 per cent of the votes.
Dr Mwinyi said he has written to the opposition about forming the GNU but ACT Wazalendo ‘is yet to responded to the letter’.
“We are leaving the post of the first vice president vacant as we wait for the ACT Wazalendo to respond,” said Dr Mwinyi as he responded to questions after announcing the cabinet.
“We also have slots for ACT Wazalendo in the cabinet and that is why I left two ministries vacant. The four elected ACT Wazalendo Members of the House of Representative have not reported so far and we are giving them time. When they are ready, they will report, take oath of allegiance and we will move on,” he added.
Dr Mwinyi did not appoint any deputy minister saying he was eyeing a small cabinet.
However, he said would consider appointing them in the future if there was a need for that.
Dar es Salaam. Zanzibar president Hussein Mwinyi has on Thursday November named his cabinet as he waits for the opposition to respond to the call to form a government of the national unity (GNU).
Dr Mwinyi formed 15 ministries but appointed 13 ministers and left the ministry of health, community development, gender and children and that of trade and industry development vacant, waiting for the Alliance for Change and Transparency (ACT Wazalendo) to fill them.
Dr Mwinyi who contested on the ruling CCM officially won the Zanzibar presidential polls after garnering 76.27 percent of the total votes cast against.
The constitution of Zanzibar requires the presidential winner to form the GNU with the party that gets at least 10 per cent of the votes.
Dr Mwinyi said he has written to the opposition about forming the GNU but ACT Wazalendo ‘is yet to responded to the letter’.
“We are leaving the post of the first vice president vacant as we wait for the ACT Wazalendo to respond,” said Dr Mwinyi as he responded to questions after announcing the cabinet.
“We also have slots for ACT Wazalendo in the cabinet and that is why I left two ministries vacant. The four elected ACT Wazalendo Members of the House of Representative have not reported so far and we are giving them time. When they are ready, they will report, take oath of allegiance and we will move on,” he added.
Dr Mwinyi did not appoint any deputy minister saying he was eyeing a small cabinet.
However, he said would consider appointing them in the future if there was a need for that.
