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Mugabe
orders Zanu PF Youths To Gear up for "anti-Blair Elections''
Crisis in Zimbabwe
Coalition
Extracted from
Crisis in Zimbabwe Weekly Update
July 02- July 11, 2004
The 2005 parliamentary
election fever took another dimension when President Robert Mugabe addressed
the Zanu PF youth national congress held at the University of Zimbabwe
last week.
Mugabe dubbed next
year’s poll "the anti-Blair elections’’ and urged the youths to go
back home and work to root out the opposition Movement for Democratic
Change (MDC) that he accused of being puppets of the British.
The Coalition would
like to warn Zimbabweans to take Mugabe’s remarks seriously. Mugabe was
clearly urging the youths to go on their usual violent campaigns against
the opposition and other elements perceived anti-government. He has set
the stage for a violent election campaign reminiscent of the 2000 and
2002 Parliamentary and Presidential elections respectively which left
over 200 opposition supporters dead.
Like the Bourbon Monarchy
that ruled France in the first quarter of the 19th century,
Mugabe has learnt nothing and forgotten nothing. He is unrepentant. It
is also misleading for Mugabe to tell the youths that next year’s election
is about the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair.
Zimbabwe’s election
is about a plethora of critical issues of governance and legitimacy. Credible
democratic processes and systems must provide solutions to a number of
issues to do with economic meltdown, rampant official corruption in Zimbabwe
and the rule of law.
In short the 2005
parliamentary elections should deal with Mugabe’s allergy to democratic
governance.
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