Mugabe's Zimbabwe
Commenting on the recent surprise election result the Australian ambassador to Zimbabwe, Matthew Neuhaus, has been quoted by The Sydney Morning Herald (online) as saying:
An eternally frustrated Prime Minister Tsvangirai who was in a power-sharing arrangement post violent uprising following the controversial 2009 election has refused to join the government, this time preferring to fight the result in the courts. He stressed that:
I believe there should be a complete re-run. I personally observed the misusing of ballot papers, of people who had always voted in the same place being turned away or told they were registered 200 miles away. I personally observed people being bussed in from other areas. There's no doubt about what has happened here.
An eternally frustrated Prime Minister Tsvangirai who was in a power-sharing arrangement post violent uprising following the controversial 2009 election has refused to join the government, this time preferring to fight the result in the courts. He stressed that:
The fraudulent and stolen election has plunged Zimbabwe into a constitutional, political and economic crisis.
As far as the 89 year-old Mugabe was concerned he had scored another five year term in office with a landslide two-thirds majority, extending his reign to an incredible 33 years.
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