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Zimbabwe will probably hold run-off election
Seoul News.Net
Friday 4th April, 2008
In Zimbabwe, President Robert Mugabe's ruling party is deciding whether to contest a runoff election against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
ZANU-PF and independent projections indicate that although Tsvangirai has won, he failed to get the absolute majority needed to avoid a runoff.
Senior ZANU-PF party members have told reporters the party will not simply hand the election to Morgan Tsvangirai on a silver platter.
ZANU-PF has apparently lost control of parliament for the first time in Robert Mugabe's 28-year rule but no results have yet been released for the presidential poll.
The opposition says its tallies show Tsvangirai won and should be declared president.
They have applied to the Zimbabwe High Court to have election results published immediately.
Mugabe faces deep discontent as Zimbabwe suffers the world's highest inflation rate of more than 100,000 percent, a virtually worthless currency and severe food and fuel shortages.
Zimbabweans are waiting anxiously to hear whether the elections will bring a way out of their economic misery.
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Anonymous
04-04-08, 10:31 PM |
Zimbabwe will probably hold run-off election
that lot contesting a run off election? The only “run off” will be the blood that Mugabe’s henchmen will spill from the opposition
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waltky
04-13-08, 09:47 PM |
Preparing to shunt Mugabe out of office...
:cool:
African leaders discuss Zimbabwe’s deepening crisis without Robert Mugabe
Sunday, April 13, 2008 - Southern African leaders discussed Zimbabwe’s deepening electoral crisis at a marathon 12-hour summit that ended before dawn Sunday with a weak declaration and marked failure to criticize the absent President Robert Mugabe.
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Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who claims to have won the March 29 election outright, had wanted the leaders to press Mugabe to resign after 28 years as Zimbabwe’s leader.
Western powers, the United Nations and regional church, democracy and human rights groups had called for the meeting to demand an immediate announcement of the long-delayed election results.
Instead, a summit declaration called for the expeditious verification of results in the presence of the candidates or their agents “within the rule of law." The declaration also urged “all parties to accept the results when they are announced."
Independent tallies indicate Mugabe lost the election, but garnered enough votes to force a runoff. The summit promised to send observers if there was a second round of elections. The team it sent in March was led by a junior minister from Angola, a country that has not held elections since 1992.
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