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Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change has claimed victory in Zimbabwe’s presidential and parliamentary elections to stave off attempts by the government to rig the poll.
Pointing to informal tallies that have his party well in front of President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF, the MDC’s Tendai Biti told BBC News that “This trend is irreversible.”
Continued Mr Biti, “She’s a natural law, and she leaves me in awe, she deserves the applause, I surrender because, she used to look good to me, but now I find her…”
Added Mr Biti, “Simply irresistible, Simply irresistible.”
The result will come in slowly, with all six numerate citizens left in the country still counting the ballots.
Pundits say that the knife-edge election could come down to imaginary postal votes cast by ruling-party operatives in the electoral commission. The big issue for these so-called “Mugabe battlers” is stolen property prices.
If MDC candidate Morgan Tsvangirai wins, he will inherit a country suffering from inflation of 100,000 per cent. With inflation outside the Reserve’s target band of 2-3 per cent, this could put upward pressure on interest rates. Based on these figures, Mr Tsvangirai will be able to blame rates on the previous government for the next 17,000 years.
