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...ZANU-PF...
...will control which portfolios in a new cabinet. A meeting between the two men on Thursday aimed at resolving the issue broke up without agreement, as reports began to trickle in of violence breaking out in different parts of the country between supporters of Mugabe's Zanu-PF and the opposition MDC. While most of the violence of recent months has been directed against opposition supporters - thugs controlled by Zanu-PF killed, tortured and displaced thousands to intimidate them into staying away from the polls - on Thursday it was the government crying foul. Reports from the countryside tell of local...
...tone adopted by Mugabe on state television on Wednesday, when he lamented that "If we had not blundered in this election, we would not be facing all this humiliation." The bitterness of their president's words will have burned in the ears of army generals and ZANU-PF hardliners who have vowed never to accept MDC rule. The power-sharing agreement signed on Monday gives the MDC, which won the parliamentary elections in March, a razor thin majority in the cabinet that will run Zimbabwe's government. Mugabe, however, assured his backers that ZANU-PF remains "in the driving seat...
...When the deal is finally signed, Mugabe will likely remain President with two deputies from his Zanu-PF Party, but with reduced powers, and Tsvangirai will become Prime Minister with two deputies, one from his own faction of the MDC and the other being Arthur Mutambara, leader of a rival faction of the opposition party...
...While Tsvangirai accepted the proposal, sources claimed that Mugabe had initially rejected it, saying it would render him largely ceremonial and insisting that Tsvangirai should instead be his deputy. A Zanu-PF minister, speaking on condition of anonymity, told TIME earlier that Mugabe was not comfortable with Tsvangirai heading the government. He said, "The deal on the table is more of a fantasy. They want Tsvangirai to chair and appoint Cabinet. Those are the functions of the President in accordance to the constitution of Zimbabwe. Comrade Mugabe is refusing to sign that document...