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Zimbabwe says it will struggle to pay for elections
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Mar 10, 2013 10:54pm |
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| Author | Reuters |
| Media | News Service - Reuters |
| News Date | Sunday, March 10, 2013 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Zimbabwean Finance Minister Tendai Biti said on Saturday the southern African country would struggle to afford the two votes - a referendum and an election - which are due to be held this year in the space of a few months.
Biti, who is also secretary-general of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), said the referendum would cost $85 million and these funds were not available from Zimbabwe's 2013 budget of $4 billion.
"Clearly Zimbabwe doesn't have sufficient funds to hold both the referendum and the election. More so when these two important events are following so closely after the national census we had done in August and September," Biti told reporters ahead of an MDC rally in the South African city of Pretoria.
The MDC party is headed by Morgan Tsvangirai who went into government with his rival President Robert Mugabe after a violent and disputed vote in 2008.
Zimbabwe will ask its citizens to decide on a new constitution in a referendum on March 16 and adoption of the document would pave the way for elections in July, potentially ending Mugabe's 33-year run as president. |
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