(PF) party plot to rig next year’s watershed harmonized elections has been exposed, just as the beleaguered nation begins gearing up for the crunch ballot which Zanu (PF) is widely expected to lose.
President Robert Mugabe’s plot hinges on the multiple registration of ruling-party supporters in different constituencies to allow them to vote several times; the second part of the strategy involved bussing of supporters during the just ended mobile voter registration to known opposition strongholds, relocating more than 500,000 unemployed urban dwellers to commercial farms grabbed from whites without compensation and to redraw constituency boundaries to favour known strongholds of the governing party. The plot fits into the overall strategy to increase Parliamentary seats.
Mugabe aims to outflank the opposition MDC by moving the hundreds of thousands of unemployed and other desperate urban dwellers into farming areas. Others in cities are being promised housing stands if they vote for Zanu (PF).
The relocation of registered voters from urban to rural areas – in exchange for their pledged votes – will bolster the ruling Zanu (PF) party’s rural support. The relocated people will get housing stands or plots. They will then be expected to transfer their votes to the constituency where they have been allocated the stands.
The plan was tailor-made to fit Zanu’s overall presidential election strategy. A pilot phase proved successful in the recent voter registration in Harare North, where 4,000 mainly Zanu supporters and “war veterans” were moved from surrounding areas to register as voters in the constituency.
Government officials admitted that Mugabe was not leaving anything to chance and would do all he could to ensure he won the presidential election. He has vowed never to let the MDC rule
Sources at the police’s Morris Depot in