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Original Post Date: 2008-04-04 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
By Cris Chinaka
Harare – Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF party on Friday decided President Robert Mugabe should contest a run-off vote against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai if neither wins a majority in a presidential election.
The party politburo met for around five hours to discuss Mugabe’s next move to face the greatest crisis of his 28-year rule.
Zanu-PF lost control of parliament for the first time in elections last Saturday but no results have so far emerged from the presidential vote, prompting opposition suspicions that Mugabe is trying to engineer a way out of the crisis.
The opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) says Tsvangirai won an absolute majority in the presidential vote and should be declared president, ending Mugabe’s long rule since independence in 1980.
Zanu-PF and independent projections show Tsvangirai winning the presidential vote but falling short of the absolute majority needed to avoid a runoff.
Announcing the Zanu-PF decision, party administration secretary Didymus Mutasa said parliamentary votes would be recounted in disputed areas.
Earlier, liberation war veterans – a potent force backing Mugabe – attacked the opposition for claiming victory. “These are all provocations against us freedom fighters,” veterans’ leader Jabulani Sibanda told a press conference.
He said the veterans would repel any attempt by white farmers to reclaim properties seized by Mugabe. “It now looks like these elections were a way to open for the re-invasion of this country (by the British),” he said.
Impatience
There is increasing impatience in Zimbabwe at a six-day wait for the results of the presidential election.
The MDC said it would ask the High Court to order the immediate release of the results.
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.
The statement by veterans of a war against white rule in the 1970s appeared to refer to a report in the state-owned Herald newspaper saying there were reports of white farmers threatening to grab back their land.
Critics say the handing of the farms to inexperienced farmers and Mugabe cronies is a key reason for Zimbabwe’s economic collapse.
Amid rumours that security forces planned to crackdown on the opposition, Tsvangirai spokesperson George Sibotshiwe denied the MDC leader had gone into hiding.
“He had a meeting with diplomats today and he is in his office. He has no reason to hide.”
A runoff should be held on April 19, three weeks after the elections, but civil society groups said Mugabe plans to extend that to 90 days to buy time to regroup.
A statement by civil society organisations in Harare said they had “reliable knowledge” that Mugabe intended to extend the interval before a runoff “using disputed and autocratic presidential powers”.
The statement read by human rights lawyer Lovemore Madhuku expressed “gravest concern at the unacceptable delay in the release of poll results”.
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20080404165716189C654967