Zimbabwe Launches Recount in Parliamentary Election
by Liam Bailey
2008-04-19 08:26:51 **news**
Zimbabwe is to recount votes for 23 out of 110 seats in the parliamentary election, a move which has caused suspicions over just how impartial, the impartial elections commission is, especially after it was Mugabe's Zanu-PF who asked for the recount having lost their majority in the assembly.
The opposition Movement for Democratic Change's secretary general Tendai Biti says the party will not accept the recount, as the "ballot boxes have been stuffed". "Those ballot boxes have become pregnant and reproduced," he added.
The Zimbabwean high court overturned the MDC's motion against the recount, saying their claims had no merit.
Meanwhile results of the Presidential election have still not been revealed, it is highly likely that the MDC have won the Presidential race, and Mugabe is holding them back till he can manoeuvre his party's majority back in the assembly by rigging the recount – that is assuming the true result of the Presidential election is ever revealed.
In other related news, Dockers in South Africa have refused to unload a Chinese cargo ship of arms and munitions destined for Zimbabwe. The cargo ship was forced to leave South African waters after South Africa's highest court ruled against allowing the arms to pass through their territory. There was complaints at the South African government not intervening in the dispute, but it is because of their need to maintain a good relationship with China that had the S.A. government's hands tied.
This is yet again an example of China's unscrupulous approach to maintaining growth in its economy, selling (almost giving probably) arms to a leader like Mugabe, and Ahmadinejad, to keep them sweet, to keep oil and other basic materials flowing into its machine of massive economic growth.
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Comment by Dan Dauya, Malawi.
2008-05-08
If the time for change is here, who else can change it. Its time for Zimbabweans to experience that change. Mugabe accept the defeat.
Comment by geopeVeproota
2008-05-08
thanks much, dude