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Tsvangirai party vows to 'bury' Mugabe in run-off
Zimbabwe's main opposition vowed on Sunday to 'bury' President Robert Mugabe at next month's second-round election, and called for the process of checking the poll results to be open to the media.
- Agencies
- Published: 19:24 May 18, 2008
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe's main opposition vowed on Sunday to 'bury' President Robert Mugabe at next month's second-round election, and called for the process
of checking the poll results to be open to the media.
The Movement for Democratic Change launched its campaign ahead of the June 27 election in the absence of its leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who delayed his return from abroad after the party said it had discovered a plot to kill him.
MDC vice president Thokozani Khupe told about 10,000
supporters in Zimbabwe's second city of Bulawayo that the
opposition would win by an even bigger margin after official
results from the March 29 first round vote showed Tsvangirai did not secure sufficient votes to avoid a run-off.
The MDC insists Tsvangirai won outright the first time.
"We decided to participate in the run-off to give the people
of Zimbabwe a second chance to kick out the dictatorship. We have now declared a zero vote for Robert Mugabe," Khupe told supporters on Sunday.
"We need to give Mugabe a final blow. On June 27 we will be
having a ZANU-PF funeral. We are going to make sure we bury them so that they will not resurrect again."
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