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Tsvangirai trashes 2018 poll 'results'
02 May 2017 at 08:06hrs | Views
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai says he will not accept results of next year's harmonised elections unless they delivered victory for the opposition.
He said MDC-T had Plan B if President Mugabe prevails in 2018.
Tsvangirai, whose party was routed by Zanu-PF in the last harmonised elections, claimed Zanu-PF was now a minority and minorities do not win at the ballot. Tsvangirai went on to allege that Zanu-PF was already rigging the 2018 elections saying he had received information to that effect.
Tsvangirai scaled up the political stakes and declared that he would not concede defeat to President Robert Mugabe's "fragmented" Zanu-PF party in next year's general elections.
In his Workers' Day speech at the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU)-organised commemorations at Dzivarasekwa Stadium in Harare, Tsvangirai said he would not accept an election result that does not confirm him as outright winner.
The MDC-T leader, who is widely tipped to stand as the opposition parties' sole presidential candidate under the proposed grand coalition deal, told the 5 000-strong crowd that his party had identified and plugged most electoral holes likely to be used by Zanu-PF to rig the upcoming elections.
He said MDC-T had Plan B if President Mugabe prevails in 2018.
Tsvangirai, whose party was routed by Zanu-PF in the last harmonised elections, claimed Zanu-PF was now a minority and minorities do not win at the ballot. Tsvangirai went on to allege that Zanu-PF was already rigging the 2018 elections saying he had received information to that effect.
Tsvangirai scaled up the political stakes and declared that he would not concede defeat to President Robert Mugabe's "fragmented" Zanu-PF party in next year's general elections.
In his Workers' Day speech at the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU)-organised commemorations at Dzivarasekwa Stadium in Harare, Tsvangirai said he would not accept an election result that does not confirm him as outright winner.
The MDC-T leader, who is widely tipped to stand as the opposition parties' sole presidential candidate under the proposed grand coalition deal, told the 5 000-strong crowd that his party had identified and plugged most electoral holes likely to be used by Zanu-PF to rig the upcoming elections.
Source - the herald
