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Mugabe chairs leadership meeting

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A runoff vote for the Zimbabwean elections should by law be held on April 19, three weeks after the elections, but civil society groups have told Reuters today that Robert Mugabe plans to extend that to 90 days to buy time to regroup "using disputed and autocratic presidential powers". The statement read by human rights lawyer Lovemore Madhuku expressed "gravest concern at the unacceptable delay in the release of poll results". Six days have passed since the presidential election in Zimbabwe, and still results have not been released. President Robert Mugabe will chair a meeting of his ruling party policy committee today to discuss Zimbabwe's elections, amid uncertainty over whether he will stand in a runoff vote to stay in power. As a liberation war leader Mugabe is still respected by many in Africa, but has faced disapproval as Zimbabwe suffers the world's highest inflation rate of more than 100,000 percent, a virtually worthless currency and severe food and fuel shortages. Liberation war veterans, a powerful force backing Mugabe, said victory claims by the Movement for Democratic Change, who won a parliamentary election and say they also defeated Mugabe in a presidential poll, were "a provocation against us freedom fighters".

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