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Political Fireworks: Zimbabwe Leaders Come Face To Face

Fireworks are expected at the meeting where Mugabe and Tsvangirai are expected to address regional leaders on what exactly is the problem regards the results and the situation in the country.

By Citizen Correspondent George Nyathi , Harare, Zimbabwe

Date Posted: 04/11/08

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The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is faced with the unenviable task of proving to the world it is not a toothless bulldog by finding a lasting solution to Zimbabwe’s election results standoff between Robert Mugabe (Zanu-PF) and Morgan Tsvangirai (MDC).

Levy Mwanawasa, SADC chairman and Zambian president, this week called for an urgent crisis meeting that is expected to be attended by SADC member states including embattled Zanu-PF leader, Mugabe and his fore in the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), Tsvangirai.

Both parties have been at loggerheads over the outcome of Zimbabwe’s March 29, 2008 election, with the MDC claiming that it had romped to victory with a 60 per cent margin while Mugabe and his Zanu PF have argued they would wait for the announcement of the results by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, ZEC.

The ZEC has not released the official results from the presidential election, claiming that it was still in the process of collating and meticulously verifying the results as received at its national command centre - delays that have seen the MDC petition the High Court to force the electoral commission to release the results.