Zimbabwe's opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, is facing an “avalanche of calls” to withdraw from this Friday’s presidential election after a campaign of murder, assault and intimidation by supporters of President Robert Mugabe.
Mugabe told a campaign rally last Friday: “Only God who appointed me will remove me – not the MDC, not the British.” | Tsvangirai is expected to decide tomorrow whether he will contest the election even though 85 members of his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have been killed and evidence is mounting of attempts to rig the voting.
The 56-year-old former trade union leader has previously indicated that nothing would deter him from fighting the election. But senior party officials warned yesterday that there was little point in a contest that Mugabe is determined to steal. Mugabe told a campaign rally last Friday: “Only God who appointed me will remove me – not the MDC, not the British.” |