The UN team was scheduled to visit Zimbabwe to assess requirements for general elections expected this year, both Biti and Chinamasa on April 4 wrote a letter appealing for financial assistance from UN.
ZANU PF’s Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa is said to have written a counter letter blocking the visit, because his party is unhappy with the UN’s request to conduct a needs assessment first before agreeing to help fundraise the elections.
Addressing journalists in Harare Monday Finance Minister Tendai Biti said,“We eventually panel beat an agreement with Minister Chinamasa yesterday afternoon which we all signed in our ugly handwritings to allow the mission to come, and we are expecting the mission anytime soon, ”Biti said before warning that if the mission does not come the country will head for a disastrous election, “It will be tragic if they do not come to Zimbabwe, because the bottom line is that failure to fund this election adequately will compromise the quality of the election. If we have to raid the country’s economy again the long term effect of that it will be catastrophic."
The Finance Minister said they would not beg for election funding from the corporate world like what they did in the just ended referendum.
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