Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai rejected calls on Tuesday for a national unity government instead of a presidential runoff vote and said his party was sure to win the election despite government violence.
Tsvangirai told a news conference Zimbabwe had suffered a de facto coup and was being run by a military junta.
| Problem is, the military isn't going to respect the results of the election. |
Some 66 supporters of his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) had been killed since disputed March elections, he said.
Simba Makoni, a defector from the ruling ZANU-PF party and a former finance minister, said earlier the June 27 run-off between President Robert Mugabe and Tsvangirai must be called off because a free and fair vote was impossible. "Following the announcement of the date for the run-off, no one can change that due process unless Robert Mugabe concedes defeat, or collapses. It therefore means that a government of national unity negotiated before the runoff does not arise," Tsvangirai said. |