Opposition Says Zimbabwe Election Conditions Favor Mugabe

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Source: Voice of America

Zimbabwe's independent election observer network says that the political climate and conditions on the ground have given an unfair advantage to President Robert Mugabe and his ruling ZANU-PF for polls due March 29. Peta Thornycroft reports from Harare that although these elections are not as violent as previous polls, conditions for free and fair elections according to regional ground rules, are not there.

Along the Enterprise Road, linking Harare to northeastern Zimbabwe, three groups of ZANU-PF youth were pulling down opposition election posters.

Friday is a public holiday and the road is largely deserted except for the youths who clenched their fists in defiance as motorists passed by.

The independent Zimbabwe Electoral Support Network notes some violence and intimidation of opposition supporters in various parts of rural Zimbabwe.

Read more: http://voanews.com/english/2008-03-21-voa33.cfm

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[David__77]

1. I wish there were a third way - neither ZANU-PF nor MDC.

The MDC are rightly seen as foreign stooges while the ZANU-PF has long since lost its claim to the glory of the liberation struggle. The sad thing is that Mugabe did a lot of good fighting against the white settler colonial government in the 60s and 70s, but has since degenerated into a typical elitist autocrat.