Mugabe wants elections in July

13.06.2013 · The decision of the aged dictator Mugabe to leave hold elections in July, has met with sharp criticism from Prime Minister Tsvangirai.

Twice Mugabe: The despot on Thursday in front of a portrait of his younger years
The zimbabwische President Robert Mugabe has for 31 Scheduled July parliamentary and presidential elections and thus incurred the wrath of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. "I will not accept that and I will not accept," Tsvangirai said on Thursday in Harare. Mugabe's unilateral establishment of an election date
was "illegal and unconstitutional" because the aged potentate - have defied all the arrangements - again. In March this year, Zimbabwe had been given a new, liberal constitution that will serve as the basis for the forthcoming elections. With its ratification Mugabe and Tsvangirai had agreed to set a date of choice by consensus.

Not the date that is the problem, Tsvangirai said on Thursday, but the circumstances under which such an election takes place. Tsvangirai calls as a condition including a reform of the still commanded by officers loyal Mugabe forces, as well as an easing of repressive media laws, as it is enshrined in the new constitution. The upcoming elections will put an end to the equally unpopular as inefficient government of national unity in which, since its creation four years ago, representatives of Mugabe's Zanu-PF party and the former opposition party "Movement for Democratic Change" (MDC) under Tsvangirai mutually block.