ZIMBABWE: Zimbabwe's main opposition party urges citizens to rise and save the country from tyranny

Record ID: 454379

  • Title: ZIMBABWE: Zimbabwe's main opposition party urges citizens to rise and save the country from tyranny
  • Date: 26th January 2007
  • Summary: HARARE, ZIMBABWE (JANUARY 17, 2007) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF OPPOSITION PARTY SUPPORTERS AND MEDIA (SOUNDBITE) (English) MORGAN TSVANGIRAI, MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE (MDC) PARTY PRESIDENT, SAYING: "Central to our strategic thinking was ZANU PF's project of making a life President out of Robert Mugabe by pushing the presidential elections to 2010. The national council acknowledge that the project and obsession of power retention legally and extra-legally needs to be resisted. In this regard, the national council resolved that we would engage in a campaign that will ensure that ZANU PF project collapses." PARTY SUPPORTERS MEDIA (SOUNDBITE) (English) MORGAN TSVANGIRAI, , MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE (MDC) PARTY PRESIDENT SAYING: "I call upon all Zimbabwean across the class, racial and ethnic divide to close ranks and take it upon themselves to save Zimbabwe, I call upon business, labour, students, the informal sector, the church and all those in the Diaspora to join us in our quest to end this tyranny." PARTY SUPPORTERS MEDIA
  • Embargoed: 10th February 2007 12:00
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  • Location: Zimbabwe
  • Country: Zimbabwe
  • Topics: Domestic Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA592G8GZZ1IU4R9PNPV36KADXN
  • Story Text: Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said today (January, 17) that his Movement for Democratic Change party (MDC) would mobilise supporters to block President Robert Mugabe's plan to extend his rule by two years to 2010.
    Addressing the media and party supporters in Harare, at a conference to discuss his party's program for the year, Tsvangirai said that pushing the country's presidential elections to 2010 was a ploy by the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) to make Robert Mugabe a life president. A move opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai his MDC party will resist by all means.
    "The national council acknowledge that the project and obsession of power retention legally and extra- legally needs to be resisted. In this regard, the national council resolved that we would engage in a campaign that will ensure that ZANU PF project collapses," he said.
    Other party sources said the MDC would lead a series of street protests and industrial strikes in the coming months.
    At over a thousand per cent, Zimbabwe has the highest rate of inflation in the world. Unemployment is at an all time high and food and fuel shortages are frequent in the country.
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