EU Ambassador to Zimbabwe Aldo Dell’Ariccia
last week said President Robert Mugabe’s government had the task of restoring
democracy in the country of which the issue of credible elections was no exception.
The EU is spot on about the need for free and fair elections as THE pre-requisite for Zimbabwe ever getting out of this political and economic mess. The only way to ensure the next elections are free and fair is by ensuring all the democratic reforms agreed in the GPA are implemented.
Tsvangirai and MDC had the best chance to get the reforms implemented during the GNU; they failed because of their breath-taking incompetence. It was going to be an uphill battle getting Mugabe to implement the reforms after he rigged the July 2013 elections. By engaging Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs the EU gave him the legitimacy he did not deserve but, worse still, granted him the sole responsibility to decide whether or not the reforms will ever be implemented!
The EU is spot on about the need for free and fair elections as THE pre-requisite for Zimbabwe ever getting out of this political and economic mess. The only way to ensure the next elections are free and fair is by ensuring all the democratic reforms agreed in the GPA are implemented.
Tsvangirai and MDC had the best chance to get the reforms implemented during the GNU; they failed because of their breath-taking incompetence. It was going to be an uphill battle getting Mugabe to implement the reforms after he rigged the July 2013 elections. By engaging Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs the EU gave him the legitimacy he did not deserve but, worse still, granted him the sole responsibility to decide whether or not the reforms will ever be implemented!
Ambassador Aldo Dell’Ariccia and the EU were
warned of the dangers of granting illegitimate tyrant legitimacy but, of
course, they did not listen!
What the EU must understand is that it is not
in the DNA of a tyrant to give up power no matter how bad the situation may be.
It is equally intolerable that the people of Zimbabwe should be expected to
suffer the consequences of the regime's failures and corrupt rule for another
even one more year. The EU should have never re-engage the tyrannical regime and
prop it up!
2 comments:
Chenjerai Hove says he is not returning to Zimbabwe until there is change.
Zimbabwe had its best chances ever to turnover a new leaf if only Tsvangirai had not wasted those chances by failing to implement the democratic reforms. He had five years to do so but failed to get even one reform implemented. God only knows when the country will get another chance.
Yes Chenjerai Mugabe will certainly have you arrested the minute you set foot back on Zimbabwean soil; blame Tsvangirai's incompetence for all your troubles.
President Ian Khama of Botswana has reaffirmed that Botswana will not be sending any elections observers to future SADC elections because of the regional grouping’s failure to condemn Zimbabwe’s rigging elections.
I salute President Khama for his principled stand, courage and vision!
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