THE minister of justice has said a second-round run-off between President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will take place "as soon as possible” but the party will not accept preconditions from the opposition.
"As for us in Zanu PF, we are geared for the run-off. We want it as soon as possible and get on with normal business," Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa said in an interview.
Tsvangirai, the leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change party (MDC-T) said on Saturday he would contest a presidential run-off poll, but called for it to take place on May 23 in accordance with the law.
"The runoff will be held within the framework of the constitution and the electoral laws. There will be no conditionalities that will be outside this framework," Chinamasa said.
Chinamasa criticised the MDC-T whom he said were flip-flopping on their decision to enter the run-off election contest.
"They indicate that they are turning right and then turn left, they said they won and they will not participate in a run-off now they say they will participate in the runoff," the minister added.
He also implied Tsvangirai was only taking part because he had been ordered to do so by former colonial power Britain.
"They are participating because their master has ordered them to do so. We can almost predict that if Tsvangirai loses he is going to condemn the whole process," he said, implying Tsvangirai was only taking part because he had been ordered to do so by former colonial power Britain.
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission is yet to announce the date of a run-off election.
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n/a ⢠n/a Subject: n/a Sun, 11 May 2008 13:11:22 ⢠If Tsvangirai returns,the government of Zimbabwe should lock him up without trial.He declared himself president in the most despicable and uncharacteristic way in defiance of the law that he seeks to preside over.He needs to be locked up for 11 years so that he can understand Mugabe's anger against whites.His daughters must not be allowed to visit him.His wife should go into exile with Biti and Chamisa 'looking' after her.This sounds ludicrous but Smith's name is never in the news for doing that.He was Rhodesian and persecuted his own people(blacks),jailing them,killing them, maiming them and was never a dictator.Mugabe was Rhodesian at that time wasn,t he?How many more peopIe suffered years of restrictions and detentions in Rhodesia?How many died?Could that be compared to the so called Matebele massacres?IS IT BECAUSE SMITH WAS WHITE SO THE BLACK PEOPLE HE KILLED WERE NOT HIS OWN PEOPLE?Does this not sound hollow?Does this not clearly show that the noise made in the west is not about black power and freedom but colour semantics?Why do we hear all this noise about age and ageism when the factors on the ground amount to white supremacist principles promoted by black sellouts?If what he said was not highly inflammable and provoking, he would not have run away because noone made moves to arrest him for that press conference which only showed himself and Biti addressing the chief architects of his strategy.Our country is being raped openly and Tsvangirai and his apologists is aiding and abetting those that seek to change regimes and perpetuate black slavery.
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