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Zimbabwe's first post-Mugabe vote slated for July 2018 |
2018-03-20 |
[AFRICANEWS] Zim-bob-we’s first presidential and parliamentary elections since the end of former strongman Bob MuggsyMugabe ![]() Crocodileandf your title is Shopper in Chieflet him win.... ’s long rule will take place in July, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Saturday. The polls will be the first major test of the new leader, who took power in November after a de facto military coup forced the 94-year-old Mugabe to resign. They will also be the first without Mugabe’s name on the ballot since independence from Britannia in 1980. "As a nation, party and government, we are looking forward to very peaceful, transparent and harmonised elections in July this year," Mnangagwa told news hounds after a meeting with South Africans President Cyril Ramaphosa on Saturday night. Mnangagwa, 75, said the elections would be free of the violence that gripped previous polls and which was one of the reasons for strained relations between Zim-bob-we and the West. "I have already invited all political parties in Zim-bob-we to a roundtable where we all commit ourselves to non-violence," he added. Mnanaggwa will have to announce a date in an official notice. He has said he would invite Western observers, who had been banned under Mugabe’s rule. |
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