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Original Post Date: 2008-04-28 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
By Nelson Banya
Harare – A partial recount in Zimbabwe’s disputed presidential poll may be completed on Monday and candidates could start verifying results, electoral officials said, possibly ending four weeks of post-election stalemate.
President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF lost control of parliament for the first time since he took power after independence from Britain in 1980.
Now attention has turned to the outcome of the March 29 presidential vote.
A victory for Mugabe would mean a deeper economic crisis and little prospect of political change, political analysts say.
A victory for Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), would mean Western powers were likely to pour in aid and investment so long as he introduced democracy.
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) hoped to complete a partial recount on Monday and would then invite presidential candidates to compare their own vote tallies with those of the commission, as the law states.
The candidates were likely to dispute the figures, which would further delay the announcement of results by up to a week, said ZEC deputy chief elections officer Utoile Silaigwana.
A run-off is expected. Tsvangirai says he won outright and accuses Mugabe of using the delay to rig victory in a run-off.
The MDC has raised the prospect of more delays.
The party called on the United Nations to send an envoy to help resolve the crisis. That seemed unrealistic given Mugabe’s rejection of foreign intervention as a violation of Zimbabwe’s sovereignty, one of his favourite rallying cries.
MDC spokesperson Nelson Chamisa said party Secretary-General Tendai Biti would lobby the UN Security Council on Tuesday to intervene.
“The MDC will make its plea to the United Nations that the Zanu-PF regime has unleashed brutal and fascist violence on the membership of the MDC and the generality of the people of Zimbabwe,” an MDC statement said.
Zanu-PF accuses MDC members of carrying out attacks and working with Western powers to bring down Mugabe, once seen as a leader who could transform the former British colony into a democratic and economic success story.
Zimbabweans had hoped the election would ease severe food, fuel and foreign currency shortages and an alarming inflation rate of 165 000 percent, the world’s highest.
Critics including the United States and rights groups have blamed Mugabe for violence against opposition supporters since the election and have urged him to let the results be published.
The United States’ top diplomat for Africa said on Sunday any national unity government should be headed by Tsvangirai, who Washington believes won the March 29 election.
“The key here is that the people’s will be respected,” Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer told Reuters Television in an interview.
“So if there is going be an inclusive government … if you want to use the word, government of national unity, I believe it should be led by whom the people voted for which is Morgan Tsvangirai,” she said in Zambia during a regional tour.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, expressed alarm on Sunday over post-election violence.
“I am particularly concerned about reports of threats, intimidation, abuse and violence directed against NGOs, election monitors, human rights defenders and other representatives of civil society,” she said in a statement released in Geneva.
(Additional reporting by Chris Chinaka and MacDonald Dzirutwe; Writing by Michael Georgy; editing by Andrew Dobbie)
(For full Reuters Africa coverage and to have your say on the top issues, visit: http://africa.reuters.com/)br>
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20080428125119539C509783