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by Several months ago, the election between the incumbent Mugabe and rival Tsvangirai resulted in a requirement for a subsequent run-off because the challenger did not win enough of the votes by Zimbabwen election rules. Since that time, supporters of Tsvangirai have been threatened and killed. Tsvangirai himself has sought sanctuary in the Dutch embassy. As expected, Mugabe's shut out of Tsvangirai's political campaign, execution of his supporters and forced votes by gunpoint resulted in an upswing of votes for the current president. Mugabe announced his victory within hours of the voting booths shutting down. The world should be used to "democratic" elections like this, one of the most notoriously publicized elections within the past decade occurred when Saddam Hussein's won 100% of the votes in Iraq in 2002.
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Another Legacy of The Carter Administration by LordDilly :: NR8 :: Show
In April 1979, the first fully democratic election in Zimbabwe history's occurred. Braving death threats from Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front party, 64% of the nation's eligible black voters cast votes, the majority for Bishop Abel Muzorewa of the United Methodist Church for prime minister of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia. Oh no, says Jimmy Carter and his UN ambassador Andrew Young: they called one of the only democratically elected leaders on the African continent a "neo-fascist". Carter refused to meet the newly elected Muzorewa or lift sanctions. Instead, Carter and Young were only too happy to meet with Mugabe, a Marxist who made clear his intentions to make Zimbabwe a one-party state. Young told the London Times that Mr. Mugabe was a "very gentle man" whom he "can't imagine … ever pulling the trigger on a gun to kill anyone." No wonder Iran fell to fanatics and the Soviets invaded Afghanistan on Carter's watch, while we dealt with an oil embargo, stagflation, and a "misery index" at home ... but some people insist that Bush will go down as the worst president ever. They probably would have voted for Carter.