Mugabe says he will not attend
any SADC meeting this coming week after the Sunday 9 June meeting was postponed
because he was not available. President Zuma and PM Tsvangirai have been pushing
for the meeting to be held this week.
“There are pressing
constitutional duties which the President has to fulfil during this very
crucial week … he has to do three critical things,” said George Charamba,
Mugabe’s spokesman.
The three things are chairing
the cabinet meeting to approve amendments to the Electoral Act, finalizing his
party’s own primary election rules and work on proclamation of the election
date. The SADC meeting was to discuss all these matters especially the last
item.
Both President Zuma and
PM Tsvangirai want elections postponed beyond July 31 to allow for reforms to be
implemented. Mugabe is planning to proclaim the election date and present SADC
with a fait accompli!
1 comment:
@ Wasu
Mugabe is not cornered; it is Tsvangirai who is cornered. Tsvangirai pushed to have a weak Copac constitution approved which is too weak to deliver free and fair elections. Now he is asking for the GNU's parliamentary life to be extended so he can implement the reforms he had neglected to get implemented these last five years! He shot himself in the foot by passing the Copac constitution that call for no such reforms!
CNN's Becky Anderson was spot on; all Tsvangirai has done these last five years was make Mugabe and the Zanu PF dictatorship "legitimate". And now MDC are going to perform the last rites in this by giving Mugabe electoral victory in a silver platter.
It is both surprising and disappointing that outsiders have quickly sassed out what is happening in Zimbabwe and yet some many Zimbabweans who have been following this tragic political drama for years still have the wrong end of the stick! Mugabe “cornered”; how politically naïve can one be!
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