WARNING: This is Version 1 of my old archive, so Photos will NOT work and many links will NOT work. But you can find articles by searching on the Titles. There is a lot of information in this archive. Use the SEARCH BAR at the top right. Prior to December 2012; I was a pro-Christian type of Conservative. I was unaware of the mass of Jewish lies in history, especially the lies regarding WW2 and Hitler. So in here you will find pro-Jewish and pro-Israel material. I was definitely WRONG about the Boeremag and Janusz Walus. They were for real.
Original Post Date: 2008-05-08 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
[What trash. Other African countries have been worthless in their support of democracy for Zimbabwe. Jan]
Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change opposition yesterday held out the possibility its leader would face President Robert Mugabe in a presidential run-off, but called on the nation’s neighbours to verify the disputed vote count from the first round.
Thokozani Khupe, vice-president of the MDC, said the party still believed a run-off was unnecessary, maintaining opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai won the first round outright on March 29.
Results released by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission gave Tsvangirai the lead, but not enough to avoid a run-off with Mugabe. The opposition rejected those results as fraudulent.
At a news conference on Saturday, Khupe called on the Southern African Development Community to help verify the results. “We still need to be convinced before we participate in a run-off,” she said.
| ‘The ruling party’s bloody crackdown … makes a free and fair run-off vote a tragic joke’ |
Opposition leaders were meeting this weekend to consider their next step.
The MDC has consistently rejected a run-off, but its stance has appeared to soften since the official results were released and Mugabe’s party said he would take part in a second round.
On Friday, Tsvangirai’s deputy, Tendai Biti, acknowledged that skipping a second round could mean another term for Mugabe.
Biti said the only way out of the impasse was a power-sharing government led by Tsvangirai, but with no role for Mugabe.
“The ruling party’s bloody crackdown on the opposition makes a free and fair run-off vote a tragic joke,” Georgette Gagnon, Human Rights Watch’s Africa director, said in a statement. – AP