Mugabe denies ZPF failure in unity government

27 October, 2009 in Zimbabwe

source: SW Radio Africa
By Alex Bell
26 October 2009

Robert Mugabe has denied that his ZANU PF party has played any part in the failure of the unity government, insisting that his party has abided by all the conditions set by the Global Political Agreement.

In his first public comments since the MDC announced it was ‘disengaging’ from ZANU PF last week, Mugabe said this weekend that his party had fulfilled its part of the agreement and he would not to yield to MDC pressure. This was according to the state’s mouthpiece The Herald newspaper, which quoted Mugabe as saying that the MDC was acting ‘emotionally’ and not in ‘national interest’.

“The inclusive Government and the hiccups . . . you will always get people in any arrangement who are guided by little emotional thoughts and act in accordance with them and who would want things to go their way, and not the national way, and not the agreed way,” Mugabe was quoted as saying.
“There is nothing in the GPA that has not been done by ZANU PF, nothing at all. We have fulfilled everything that the GPA wanted us to [continue reading]

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