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Zimbabwe official warns of further election delay
The Cambodia News.Net
Sunday 11th May, 2008
Zimbabwe's top electoral official has told a state newspaper that it is likely the country's presidential run-off poll will be delayed.
Zimbabwe Electoral Commission chairman George Chiweshe has told the Sunday Mail that it is very likely the cut-off period for elections will be extended.
He said he thought it was ambitious that the legislature would think that 21 days would be enough.
However, he said, 'they were also wise in that they made provisions for an extension.'
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai warned that failure to hold the second round of voting within the time limit set out in Zimbabwean law risked rendering the election process illegitimate.
The second round should take place within 21 days of the first-round results being announced, making May 23 the last possible day for the ballot, Mr Tsvangirai said.
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Vausty.
05-12-08, 04:22 PM |
Bad rulers 's supporter.
Mugabe is an evil man ,very bad man and he is supported by China.Burmese military dictators are a bunch of bad rulers and they are supported by China.The more people these tyrants kill,the more they HAVE TO rely on China for survival, and the bad influence of CCP China over the globe is advancing more and more.
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waltky
05-30-08, 05:30 PM |
President for life...
:mad:
Robert Mugabe will never leave office: Wife
30 May 2008, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe will never leave his office nor will he hand over power to Morgan Tsvangirai even if the Opposition Leader wins the presidential run-off slated for next month, his wife has said.
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Grace Mugabe, 40 years her husband’s junior, told ruling Zanu-PF party loyalists that Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) would not be allowed to take power in the African nation under any circumstances. “Even if people vote for the MDC, Morgan Tsvangirai will never step foot inside State House. He will only get to hear about what it looks like inside State House from people who have been there.
“Even if Baba (Mugabe) loses, he will only leave State House to make way for someone from Zanu-PF," British newspaper The Daily Telegraph quoted her as saying. Grace Mugabe’s comments came after she accompanied her husband to the rural area of Shamva, north-east of Harare, to tour a homestead the government claimed was burned down by MDC followers.
“What we saw really touched us. We are not animals but humans. If you burn down someone’s house you want to destroy their life. We want to warn the MDC they’d stop immediately this barbaric campaign of burning and destroying people’s homes," the Zimbabwean President said.
While Mugabe has laid the blame for post-election violence at the feet of the MDC, the United Nations and other human rights group claim that Zanu-PF is responsible for the lion’s share. The opposition MDC maintains that at least 50 of its activists and supporters have been killed by Mugabe’s thugs, with many more being been beaten and burned out of their homes.
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