Another GNU in the making

Amid indications that the first round of voting may not produce a clear winner, a section of the civil society in Zimbabwe has started putting together building blocks for a transitional authority, modelled along the lines of the 2009 to 2013 in which former president Robert Mugabe shared power with his nemesis, Morgan Tsvangirai, the late.

A pre-vote survey carried out by the Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI) has revealed that no political party shall win an outright majority during the forthcoming July 30 plebiscite.

According to the findings of the survey whose results were released in Bulawayo on Thursday, Zanu PF will get 42% of the votes while the MDC Alliance will garner 31 % of the vote.

However, the voting preferences of 25 % of the survey respondents were unknown, limiting inferences that can be drawn about the actual state of the presidential race.

This is a developing story....