Tsvangirai eyes new Zimbabwe government in 2 months

GOVERNMENT IN 2 MONTHS: Morgan Tsvangirai

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Posted to the web: 21/11/2008 01:36:23
ZIMBABWEAN opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai says Zimbabwe must have a government within the next two months to avert "the possibility of chaos".

"It‘s a very narrow opportunity for us and it is practically impossible to go beyond two months," Tsvangirai told the Associated Press during a visit to Berlin, Germany.

"The possibility of chaos and the spontaneous reaction because people have nothing is very, very high every day that passes without this agreement being implemented," he said.

Zimbabwe is in political deadlock, with a power-sharing deal signed on September 15 between President Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF party and the two MDC factions having stalled over the allocation of ministries.

Tsvangirai withdrew from a June 27 presidential election runoff citing attacks on his supporters. Mugabe went ahead with the vote, which was denounced as a sham by observers at home and abroad.

Germany's Deputy Foreign Minister Reinhard Silberberg met with Tsvangirai Thursday and pledged US$625,000 to Zimbabwe in humanitarian aid.

Tsvangirai, who was in France earlier in the week, planned to fly from Germany to South Africa on Friday, though was travelling without a passport because he said Mugabe's government had refused to renew it.

Negotiators from Zanu PF and the two MDC factions are set t meet in South Africa next week to discuss a constitutional amendment that will give effect to the power-sharing government by, among other things, creating a position for prime minister, which has been designated for Tsvangirai.

Tsvangirai's MDC has said it will join the inclusive government once Constitutional Amendment Number 19 has been passed in parliament -- a process that could take roughly two months.

Once the draft Bill is gazetted, according to law, there will be a 30-day waiting period for the public and other stakeholders to scrutinise it and make their own observations. It will then be brought to parliament for debate and adoption.
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