Could this be the end of Mugabe?

April 1, 2008 General No comments
! This post hasn't been updated in over a year. A lot can change in a year including my opinion and the amount of naughty words I use. There's a good chance that there's something in what's written below that someone will find objectionable. That's fine, if I tried to please everybody all of the time then I'd be a Lib Dem (remember them?) and I'm certainly not one of those. The point is, I'm not the kind of person to try and alter history in case I said something in the past that someone can use against me in the future but just remember that the person I was then isn't the person I am now nor the person I'll be in a year's time.

All the results of Saturday’s elections in Zimbabwe have still not been announced but it looks encouraging.

According to results already released and exit polls, the opposition MDC has beaten Zanu-PF.  But not by enough meaning that a run-off between Morgan Tsvangirai and Rubert Mugabe is inevitable.

MDC reckon they’ve taken 60% of the vote and Mugabe has only taken 30% and that the delays in announcing the results are so that the Zimbabwean government can rig the result.  Which is quite likely actually because there have been reports of people disappearing off the electoral register and loyal police officers intimidating voters inside polling stations.

I don’t think MDC will have taken such a large share of the vote but I think they will have won the election and with enough votes to avoid a run-off.  Whether Mugabe manages to rig the vote enough to secure a run-off remains to be seen but don’t be surprised if they’re going through this again before the end of April.

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