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NEWS > EVERYONE ELSE > ROBERT MUGABE CALLS ELECTIONS TO HELP WEED OUT CORRUPTION IN COUNTRY
ROBERT MUGABE CALLS ELECTIONS TO HELP WEED OUT CORRUPTION IN COUNTRY
December 9 2011
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe – In an effort to eliminate the controversial and problematic power-sharing government in his country, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has called for elections next year. The 87-year old leader has been in a power-sharing pact with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai since 2008, which has been one of the most tumultuous times in the nation’s history.
Mugabe hopes, in part, that in doing away with the inefficiencies of the dual power governmental system that he will be able to sweep away the corruption brought on by his partners and finally rule the nation his way.
Mugabe has been in power since 1980 but has long had to make deal with other political parties to get things done, something he hopes to do away with in the new election, which will also herald a modified constitution.
“We are saying time has come now to prepare to have elections. We just have to have elections next year. Our country does not have an elected government. I am president to a political arrangement which is makeshift, undemocratic and illegitimate,” Mugabe told throngs of supporters in the Bulawayo.
The nation has been beset by riots and a currency literally worth less than the paper it is printed on. Mugabe has long complained that the restrictions of having to work with other people are primarily responsible for those issues. 
Mugabe has also long complained about having to spend money on things like schools and roads, a priority for the opposition, claiming that it simply erodes the wealth of the nation.
“The people of Zimbabwe are not happy and I doubt, frankly, that an election will make them any happier. There is little doubt that a power-sharing government is less efficient than one with strong control but there is little evidence to suggest that a new election will yield those results,” there is little evidence to suggest that a new election will yield those results,” said Scrape TV African analyst Claude Contee. “The country has only become more divided since the last election and that will likely result in a vote split even more down the line, resulting in a new power-sharing government and the exact same problems, with the additional expense of an election they can’t really afford.”
It’s not clear if Mugabe and his ZANU-PF party still have the cash to stuff ballots and intimidate voters on the scale of previous elections.
“The one good thing about the divisions in government is that it has allowed for a lot more bureaucracy which in turn likely means a lot more cash has gone unaccounted for. That will give Mugabe a good base on which to build his vote and, hopefully, push him over the top,” continued Contee. “Once there he will finally be able to do all the things he has wanted to do for the last three years like make Tsvangirai and all the other people who have made his life so difficult just vanish. With them gone, he will finally be able to put the country back on the right foot and bring it back to what it once was.”
Mugabe was endorsed by his party for the election, running officially unopposed, at least by the living. Under Zimbabwean rule the dead are unable to run for office.
Emil Uliya, International Correspondent
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