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Two Thoughts

Sikhanyiso Ndlovu, Zimbabwe Information Minister

It’s a sure case that President Mugabe will win resoundingly. Now this is what Tsvangirai has been advised. Rather than face humiliation and defeat of that magnitude, he has been advised not to stand for the run-off election.
Unfortunately he is depriving the people of Zimbabwe to vote, to exercise their franchise, and vote him out, because the people have realised that he is just a stooge.

Two thoughts. Firstly, whenever a country has an Information Minister, that’s a Really Bad Sign. Secondly, the “vote him out” bit is really odd. Either Ndolvu is accepting that he won the first election, and therefore really should be president anyway, or, more likely, thinks in a really twisted manner about how an election runs: it’s not to put someone in power but to keep other people out of it.