Mugabe fast tracking a weak electoral law - the law is not "a ass and a bachelor" but people are!

Zimbabweans are crying foul as the Zanu PF regimes fast tracks weak electoral laws confirming the fears that the regime has no intention of holding free and fair elections.

 

“The problem with this Bill, as with all our electoral laws, is that it weakens rather than strengthens systems and as long as these are allowed to exist, we won’t have credible or acceptable elections in this country,” said Tawanda Chimhini, the head of Election Resource Centre.

 

One of the proposed law’s weaknesses is that all Zimbabweans in the diaspora will once again be denied a vote!

 

There those, like Tsvangirai, who have argued that Zimbabweans should accept the rigged 2013 elections and the illegal seizure of the powers of government by Mugabe as “the political reality”. They said Zimbabweans should prepare for the next elections, 2018 and try to win those elections.

 

Those of us said at the time that this was a hippo-will-bite-off-his-own-tail nonsense argument designed to make us accept the unacceptable for two basic reasons:

 

1. We all know Mugabe rigged the elections (the nonsense argument of “produce the evidence” has since been dismissed as Mugabe himself has failed to release the voters roll – everyone knows that is the smoking gun of the rigged vote); how else are we going to stop him going it again as he has done repeatedly all these last 34 years other than by making sure he does not get away with vote rigging here and now? Those saying otherwise are giving yet another feeble excuse for allowing Mugabe to place himself above the law to the extent of committing high treason!
    
   “If the law supposes that,” said Mr. Bumble, in Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist … “the law is a ass—a idiot. If that’s the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experience—by experience.”
    
   There are two lots of people who have made the law “a ass – a idiot”. Those who break the law and those who allow the law breakers to get away with it!  
    
2.  The 2018 elections will only be free and fair if the democratic reforms agreed in the GPA are implemented. It is nonsense that Mugabe and Zanu PF would implement those reforms ever.
    
   This story of how Zanu PF is fast tracking weak and feeble laws shows the regime has no intention of holding free and fair elections in 2018. The other day there was a story of NIKUV, the Israeli company that helped Mugabe rig the 2013 elections, has seven containers of secretive electoral materials for the regime in SA.
    
   All these political machinations by Mugabe prove that the regime is already gearing itself to rig the next elections!

 

If Zimbabweans ever hope to wrestle political power away from Mugabe and Zanu PF then they must demand that the tyrant and his thugs must leave office because the regime is illegitimate. It is those who have dithered on this fundamental point who have given Mugabe to rig the elections confident he will get away with it!

 

Rigging elections is high treason because it is high treason and those who commit high treason must be brought to justice and punished! That is not negotiable and there is no room for dithering or indecision!