A full
Constitutional Court bench on Friday ordered President Robert Mugabe to set an
election date that would ensure that polls are held by July 31st.
Things are
moving very quickly now, the usual political stampede is on.
The new
constitution was supported to take 18 months to write; it took 52 months,
nearly three times as long. Most of that time was wasted on endless bickering
over nothing and then the stampede in which Mugabe dictated what he wanted and
Prime Minister Tsvangirai and the rest rubber stamped. The people were
instructed to vote yes in the referendum without even getting a chance to read
the constitution.
The new
Copac constitution was recently signed into law, last week.
People like
PM Tsvangirai had said the nation would need four to five months after the
signing of the Copac Constitution to prepare for new elections. Mugabe said he wanted
elections end June.
Now the
nation learns the elections must be held by end of July. One thing is clear it
is going to be yet another stampede and we all know who stands to benefit from all
this mad rush!
2 comments:
@GBZ
I am a realist; Tsvangirai is naive to think he can have free and fair elections with out reforms. You can be as positive as you wish but without the reforms it is impossible to see how there can be free and fair elections.
If people like you can stop being so naive then they would have pressured Tsvangirai to implement the reforms. We would not be in this mess.
@ Moe
All you say about the judges being "appointed by Bob and given free looted farms" and thus they cannot be impartial is true. You must put that to one side for one minute and ask whether they error in their interpretation of the constitution law in THIS CASE? They did not!
The constitution stipulates that each parliament will seat for a maximum of five years and then fresh elections must be held. Everyone in this GNU knew this and should have seen to it that all parliamentary business was concluded in time to allow fresh elections without the need to extend parliament’s life!
Considering that this GNU has been utterly useless it is mind boggling why anyone, other than the useless MPs themselves of course, would want the life of this GNU extended!
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