Power sharing in Zimbabwe taking the same form as Musharraf in Pakistan
Balaji Reddy
Jun. 25, 2008

International pressure is creating the stage where Mugabe and Tsvangirai will share power in a transitional government with Mugabe as president and Tsvangirai as Prime Minister. It is the same form of compromise that kept the unpopular corrupt dictator Pakistani General in power with civilian leadership elected by the people as the Prime Minster.

However, the opposition leader Tsvangirai has insisted he be president and Mugabe have no role. His claim to leadership is based on his having come first in a field of four in the first round of presidential voting March 29, though he did not win the 50 percent plus one vote necessary to avoid a runoff. Tsvangirai's party and its allies also won control of Parliament in the March voting — the first time since independence in 1980 that Mugabe's ZANU-PF party failed to win a parliamentary majority.

Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, who has also been trying to broker an agreement, said Tuesday that Mbeki was trying to persuade Mugabe and Tsvangirai to share power in a transitional government with Mugabe as president and Tsvangirai as prime minister. Wade was also proposing that Tsvangirai take a position junior to Mugabe's, but not that the coalition be considered merely transitional.

Tsvangirai remains at the Dutch Embassy in Harare, where he sought refuge following the announcement of his withdrawal on Sunday after getting a tip soldiers were headed to his home.

"We do not want armed conflict, but the people of Zimbabwe need the words of indignation from global leaders to be backed by the moral rectitude of military force," he said. "Such a force would be in the role of peacekeepers, not troublemakers. They would separate the people from their oppressors and cast the protective shield around the democratic process for which Zimbabwe yearns."

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