{"id":196704,"date":"2008-04-01T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/01\/zimbabwe-elections\/"},"modified":"2008-04-01T16:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T21:39:00","slug":"zimbabwe-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/01\/zimbabwe-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The elections results are still delayed, and there is now talk of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-zimbabwe1apr01,0,4122283.story\">presidential runoff<\/a>.  My guess is that the margin was too large for Zanu-PF to make Mugabe the winner, so they are angling for a 2nd round of vote fraud, possibly at a time when foreign attention is elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>We have reports that the leaders of MDC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/africa\/opposition-leaders-go-into-hiding-as-poll-result-is-delayed-803098.html\">were in hiding<\/a>.  If the Zimbabwe state security apparatus wants to move, it would have be before the final vote total.<\/p>\n<p>On the brighter side, it appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/02\/world\/africa\/02zimbabwe.html?ref=world\">thare are negociations between Zanu-PF and the MDC<\/a>, which implies that there might be a peaceful transition, though I think that Mugabe will be the wild card in all this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The elections results are still delayed, and there is now talk of a presidential runoff. My guess is that the margin was too large for Zanu-PF to make Mugabe the winner, so they are angling for a 2nd round of vote fraud, possibly at a time when foreign attention is elsewhere. We have reports that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}