CCM’s now weakening internal mechanisms

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The latest fracas within the party has made analysts to start questioning whether CCM’s cherished internal mechanisms have stopped functioning properly

Dar es Salaam. During a party meeting in the capital Dodoma last week, former Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda confirmed – implicitly at least – what was going on in the minds of many analysts of Tanzania’s political scene: that the ruling Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) is manifesting a new unfamiliar characteristic and a very disturbing one. It is a known fact that for a long time now, the Africa’s longest-serving ruling party has been boasting a strong party machine which has enabled it to deal with its internal issues amicably. It is this tradition that gave CCM cadres the confidence to ridicule their opposition counterparts, branding their parties as ‘holding companies’ with no institutions to steer them. But the latest fracas within the party has made analysts alike to start questioning whether its cherished internal mechanisms have stopped functioning properly and what that situation portends for the future of the party whose national chairperson has declared that it will rule ‘forever.’ Analysts are of the opinions that CCM is slowly but noticeably losing its capacity of overcoming turbulent internal situations and still remaining unshakable. Against this backdrop, it was not strange then to hear Mr Pinda, the party’s Central Committee (CC) member, christening what is going on within the party as “the strangest thing” he has ever experienced in his whole life as a CCM member. Although Mr Pinda didn’t clarify what he meant by “what’s happening in the CCM,” it was clear to everyone in his audience what he was referring to.

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