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Tsvangirai challenges Mugabe to new election
Mike
Saburi, Reuters
September
07, 2008
http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnBAN756307.html
Zimbabwean opposition
leader Morgan Tsvangirai said on Sunday his party would rather withdraw
from power-sharing talks than sign an unsatisfactory deal and challenged
President Robert Mugabe to call a new poll.
"We are saying to
him you can call another election under international supervision
and let's see who is going to win that race," he told a rally
to celebrate his Movement for Democratic Change's MDC) ninth anniversary.
Tsvangirai beat Mugabe
in a March 29 election but fell short of enough votes to avoid a
June run-off, which was won by Mugabe unopposed after Tsvangirai
pulled out, citing violence and intimidation against his supporters.
"We would rather
have no deal than a bad deal," Tsvangirai told his supporters.
The post-election talks
are deadlocked over how to share executive power between old foes
Mugabe and Tsvangirai, putting off any chance of rescuing Zimbabwe
from its economic collapse.
Mugabe has said he would
form a cabinet with or without Tsvangirai.
The MDC leader told the
rally in the city of Gweru in central Zimbabwe that there would
be no power sharing deal until Mugabe ceded more power to the opposition.
"The issue that
we are facing here is that Mugabe must accept to surrender some
of his powers for the power sharing arrangement to work. If that
doesn't happen there is no deal," he said. He was speaking
in both English and the local Shona language.
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