ZANU-PF: Presidential runoff in Zimbabwe

[brooklynite]

Source: AP

HARARE, Zimbabwe - A presidential runoff between President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai appeared certain Friday after the ruling party said it had agreed to a second round.

Party secretary and Minister of State Didymus Mutasa also charged that the opposition bribed electoral officials and said his party would contest the results of 16 parliamentary seats.

"We agreed to have a rerun at a date to be set by" the electoral commission, Mutasa said at a news conference after a five-hour party politburo meeting, the first since official results showed it lost control of parliament in weekend elections.

The law requires a runoff within 21 days of the first round. But diplomats in Harare and at the United Nations said Mugabe was planning to declare a 90-day delay to give security forces time to clamp down.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080404/ap_on_re_af/zimbabwe_elections

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Amazing! Rigging the outcome without electonic voting machines.....

[Zynx]

1. Good ol' fashioned ballot-box stuffing.

Makes the world go 'round.

[elehhhhna]

2. DAMN! I wish OUR President would run off!

buh-dum-dum!

[FightTheRight89]

3. This is garbage!

Why doesn't the international community act?

[David__77]

4. They already have sanctions, what do you want?

Invasion? Iraq-style occupation?

[FightTheRight89]

6. Yes.

If it's sponsored by the UN.

[David__77]

7. Well, thank you for being honest.

That is, however, called colonialism, no matter what flag it flies. There are those who feel that Africans do not deserve the right to run their own affairs. I believe they do.

[FightTheRight89]

8. Africans are not running their own affairs.

ZANU-PF does not represent the interests of the African people. They are a party held together by fear and a nation held together under Mugabe's will. I do not support bringing democracy to other lands, but when the people of other lands cry out for democracy (as in Burma last year), I strongly think that the United States or United Nations should assist them.

[David__77]

5. If they rigged it, wouldn't they rig it to win?

How could it be otherwise? In any event, ZANU-PF does retain some mass support. It's hard for Westerners to understand, but understand they should.

[DrCory]

9. Good point you make...

support for ZANU-PF is hard to understand, but true.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. In the first round, they don't HAVE to win.

They only need the frontrunner to have less than 50%.