Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said yesterday the country could only hold elections next year, contrary to President Robert Mugabe’s call for an earlier vote, notes a Mail & Guardian Online report.
‘In 12 months we can have an election in this country,’ Tsvangirai told delegates for his Movement for Democratic for Change (MDC) party congress in Bulawayo. ‘Let it be free and let it be peaceful. We want polls whose outcome will not be contested,’ he said. Tsvangirai had earlier said that elections proposed for this year would not be possible before the drafting of a new constitution was completed. Mugabe, his partner in the shaky unity government, had called for elections this year to end the power-sharing rule formed in 2008 after a disputed presidential vote marred by violence. But he has appeared to back away from his insistence on the polls, after regional leaders last month insisted that Zimbabwe draft a new constitution before going to elections.
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