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...decrepit is the regime of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe that his party almost lost a parliamentary election despite an energetic campaign to steal it. The ruling ZANU-PF party, which previously held all but three seats in the country?s legislature, lost 58 of the 120 seats contested at the weekend and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change immediately vowed to challenge the result in a further 20 in which the ruling party won by less than 500 votes. European Union observers proclaimed the two-day election anything but "free and fair" in light of a systematic campaign...
...ZANU-PF did best in the countryside, where it?s demagoguery over land-reform struck a deep chord among section of the rural poor. But the party was roundly trounced in the urban areas (and even many rural constituencies) where voters viewed the government's sudden interest in "redistributing" white farms as a cynical attempt at exploiting rural misery to deflect attention from its own legacy of corruption, catastrophic economic mismanagement, military misadventures and violent suppression of dissent...
...that the result is likely to make much difference to the immediate plans of the man who has ruled Zimbabwe as a personal fiefdom for the past 20 years. "ZANU-PF will form the government whatever the results," the party's national chairman, John Nkomo, vowed over the weekend. "Mugabe can have a cabinet of just five if he wants. Mugabe is an institution." But the president faces reelection in 2002, and Tuesday?s result may portend worse to come for the ruling party. The immediate danger is that the greater the challenge Mugabe perceives, the more desperate he becomes...
...Subject: [Pf-OPEN] Enough with the Penises Already...