Members of the House of Representatives of the opposition party have been suspended for six months in Zimbabwe

  Members of the House of Representatives of the opposition party have been suspended for six months in Zimbabwe MPs from Zimbabwe's opp...

 Members of the House of Representatives of the opposition party have been suspended for six months in Zimbabwe

MPs from Zimbabwe's opposition CCC have been suspended for six parliamentary sessions and will not receive their salaries for the next two months.

Speaker Jacob Mudenda said this after the CCC party held a protest in the National Assembly, where he said 15 members of Parliament were deceived and lost their seats.

Last Monday, a man who claims to be the general secretary of the CCC wrote a letter to the Speaker saying that the 15 MPs are not members of the party.

The party does not have a general secretary and the letter is full of errors.

Although the CCC chairman, Nelson Chamisa asked for the letter to be ignored, the Speaker of the House, who is a member of the ruling Zanu-PF party, declared 15 seats empty.

As a result of Mr. Mudenda's decision, the CCC MPs disrupted the session of the parliament for almost two hours.

According to CCC politicians and the national media, riot police were called to the parliament hall.

It is likely that the situation will worsen the political conflict, which has been raging in the southern African country since the controversial presidential election in August.