Monday, July 8, 2013

Zanu announces its own election coalition

Following news that opposition parties are forming coalitions to defeat it in elections, Zanu-PF today laughed and said it was already in a coalition.

Tsvangirai has formed a coalition with Simba Makoni while Welshman Ncube and Dabengwa also formed an alliance. But Zanu said it wasn’t worried, as it was first to form such a coalition.

“We have been doing this for years. We are already in an electoral coalition with many other parties - such as the army, the police, the Registrar General, ZEC, and so forth” a Zanu man said at a news conference. “Let’s see you beat that.”

Details of the coalition are sketchy, but sources said the deal involves the president publicly calling for peaceful elections on one hand, while the army beats up people on the other hand.

Contacted for comment, a political analyst said it was a clever strategy.

In a detailed analysis, the analyst said: “It’s a clever strategy.”