ZANU PF officials have dismissed calls by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai that the country should only hold presidential elections next year.

Speaking after Thursday's meeting of his MDC-T party’s national council meeting, Tsvangirai said MPs and Senators should be allowed to complete their current terms, due to end in 2013.

The MDC-T leader said if certain conditions are met, he was ready to take on President Robert Mugabe in an electoral showdown to resolve the “question of illegitimacy associated with the farcical Presidential run-off election of June 2008”.

Mugabe has led calls for fresh elections to choose a substantive government describing the current coalition arrangement as “semi-legal” and an unworkable “nonsense”.

Meanwhile, the MDC-T’s latest position appeared to be calibrated to chime with cross-party demands by legislators that they must be allowed to complete their current terms.

The MPs have demanded monetary compensation from the government in the event elections are held next year, which would effectively cut their current term by two years.

However, Zanu PF strategist and Tsholotsho North MP Prof Jonathan Moyo said in terms of the constitution, the country must hold presidential, parliamentary and local elections at the same time.

"Zimbabwe can have parliamentary elections or local authority elections only in terms of the Constitution. The only people who do not know that are the Americans and their puppets," Moyo said on Thursday night.

Moyo claimed Tsvangirai’s remarks were an attempt to under-play ongoing debate over revelations by the United States' classified cables released by the whistle blowing website, WikiLeaks.

"No amount of treachery or propaganda will hide the fact that Tsvangirai must forget about elections but retire from government and politics because of his treasonous activities as revealed by WikiLeaks. No amount of political games can save him, he should retire and face prosecution," he said.

The former information minister also dismissed claims by the MDC-T that, in terms of the SADC-brokered Global Political Agreement (GPA), Mugabe could not unilaterally call for elections.

“(Neither) Zanu PF nor its President do not have the right of unilaterally calling for the aforesaid Presidential election,” the MDC said in one of its resolutions on Thursday.

But Moyo begged to differ, insisting the Presidency was not a creation of the GPA.

"Tsvangirai and his masters should know that the President is not a creation of the GPA but the Prime Minister and his cronies are the creation of the GPA.

"There is no single clause in the GPA creating the President but there is a clause creating the PM, and you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to know that," he said.