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Zimbabwe's MDC struggles for survival after election disaster
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Aug 04, 2013 05:38pm |
| Category | Analysis |
| News Date | Aug 04, 2013 05:00pm |
| Description | Zimbabwe's MDC party, shocked by its overwhelming election defeat, has a battle on its hands to convince supporters it has any chance of taking power in the years to come.
The Movement for Democratic Change's survival may depend on a shakeup of its leadership, which many say was naive in entering a four-year unity government with President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF after a decade of acrimony and conflict.
State media are already sounding the death knell for the party led by former trade unionist Morgan Tsvangirai, who since 1999 has been the only man to have offered serious opposition to ZANU-PF - until his hammering in the July 31 polls.
"Morgan Tsvangirai's 15 minutes of fame have come to a spectacular end. It was bound to happen," the pro-Mugabe Sunday Mail crowed in an editorial.
As Tsvangirai, 61, prepares to launch a legal challenge to a poll he says was heavily rigged, analysts are asking why his party participated in an exercise it said was riddled with flaws from the outset. |
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