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Zimbabwe unity govt must end in 2012: Mugabe
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] President Bob (Muggsy) Mugabe said Friday that Zimbabwe's unity government should dissolve within months, calling for elections next year despite stalled efforts at political reform. The 86-year-old leader, in power since the Pleistocene, was forced into a power-sharing deal with his rival, current Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai in February last year. Their arrangement was strained from the start, but tensions between them have again ripped into the open with Tsvangirai struggling to assert his authority within the power-sharing regime. "The life of this creature called the Global Political Agreement is only two years and it started in February last year," Mugabe said in state media. "Some will say, let us negotiate and give it another life. I am reluctant because part of the things happening (in the inclusive government) are absolutely foolish and stupid," Mugabe said. "February next year, which is about four months to go, then it will have lived its full life and I do not know what is going to happen if we are not ready with a constitution." Posted by: Fred 2010-10-16 |
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