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Original Post Date: 2004-02-27 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 2/27/2004 2:50:26 PM
Mugabe refuses UN election aid
[A bastard like Mugabe can spit in the world’s face, demand anything he wants and everyone still kisses his backside. Why? Because he’s black, and blacks can do anything they want in this world. The rules which apply to EVERYONE ELSE don’t apply to blacks. The correct response is to crush his government with the same ferocity used to crush Saddam Hussein. But Saddam Hussein wasn’t black, that’s why his head could be kicked in. Jan]
Harare – President Robert Mugabe’s government confirmed on Friday it had withdrawn a request it made to the United Nations for help with elections next year.
Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa was quoted in the privately-owned Zimbabwe Independent as saying the government had asked the United Nations Development Programme for financial help.
Mugabe said last week that voting for the 120 contested seats in the 150-seat legislature would be held in March next year.
However, Chinamasa said that, “given the economic upturn, we think we will now be able to to meet the costs from our own resources”.
He also rejected appeals for comprehensive electoral and constitutional reforms and said parliamentary elections would be held under the same laws as the presidential vote in 2002.
“As far as we are concerned, the next election will be run on the basis of the existing electoral laws,” he said.
Mugabe’s victory in presidential elections in March 2002 was widely dismissed by independent international observers as the result of rigging and violent intimidation.
Want full-scale changes to the system
Western diplomatic sources confirmed on Friday the withdrawal of the request came after the UN said it would first have to send a team to examine the country’s electoral system and political environment.
They said the team had been due to arrive in Zimbabwe on Wednesday next week.
The sources said the UN would have provided support only if there were full-scale changes to the system.
They said the UN would also insist on “significant progress” in talks between the opposition Movement for Democratic Change and Mugabe’s Zanu-PF to try to resolve the country’s crisis.
“It’s in the national interest and for regional security that we ask for assistance from the UN,” said Reg Matchaba-Hove, head of the independent Zimbabwe Election Support Network.
“We don’t just need them for money. We need them for international and domestic credibility.
“There is need for substantial election reform,” he said and called for the repeal of press-gag laws and draconian security legislation passed in 202.
“If we don’t, you cannot talk of free and fair elections. We will be back to square one, the 2002 elections. It would contribute to political instability here and beyond our borders.”
“It is impossible to have free and fair elections under the preent electoral set-up,” said Lovemore Madhuku, chairman of the National Constitutional Association which is pressing for constitutional reform.
“We expected this. They are hardening their position. Zanu-PF wants to stay in power and they are determined to use the system that guarantees they will win.” – Sapa-dpa
Edited by Iaine Harper
Source: NEWS24.COM
URL: http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/…br>