{{MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday made an incredible somersault that will shock even}}
his handlers from Western countries when he said that his party wants elections to be held on July 31, but Zanu-PF wants them to be postponed. This is despite Mr Tsvangirai’s recent various public attempts to have the polls postponed.
Addressing about 1 000 supporters at Gokwe Centre, some of whom had come from as far away as Zhombe, Kwekwe and Redcliff, Mr Tsvangirai brewed a shocker when he said he would fight hard to stop Zanu-PF from postponing the elections.
“I heard that now they want elections postponed from July 31, but we are saying no,” said Mr Tsvangirai.
“That will not happen. We want them to be held on July 31.”
Mr Tsvangirai seemed to have forgotten that he filed an application at the Constitutional Court recently attempting to postpone the elections indefinitely, saying he wanted reforms to be carried out first.
The elections were saved from being postponed after the court dismissed his application.
President Mugabe this week said Mr Tsvangirai, together with the leader of the other MDC faction, Professor Welshman Ncube, recently petitioned the African Union calling on the continental body to defer the polls. This is despite the fact that all the electoral processes starting with the special vote have already been conducted.
Their latest action followed similar attempts to have Sadc influence poll postponement remarkably failed after the Constitutional Court dismissed calls for postponement of the polls.
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