ZANU PF Wins By-Election
Are U Really Popular Mr Tsvangirai
As journos take up their pens this week, to yet another loss to ZANU-PF it would be a great service to our readers/listners whatever to ask the MDC, and this tyme not taking any nonsense on what happened. The country is burning, the ruling party is squabbling, even in the rural areas these things are being felt, so my question to you Mr Morgan Tsvangirai is what now???Were the elections rigged, if so why did you contest. Can Mugabe be blamed if he tells the world that a by-election was held and the ''people spoke". With zanu-pf with 40 percent of the rural council seats in their back-pocket and the 13 more(see bottom of story) are you going to contest and legitimise those elections too.
It seems rocket scientist Arthur Mutambara figured something right this tyme by not even wasting his time.
This week journos lets not let the MDC give us their usual rhetoric
Cc.Nelson Chamisa
Eddie Cross
Grace Kwenjie

Reporting by ZimOnline
(South Africa)
President Robert Mugabe’s ruling ZANU PF party retained two rural constituencies in weekend by-elections.

ZANU PF’s Stephen Chiurayi beat opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party’s Moses Jiri to clinch Chikomba constituency. In Rushinga constituency, the ruling party's Lazarus Dokora won against MDC’s Kudakwashe Chideya.

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission said figures on the two polls were not yet available owing to bad roads and poor communication.

"ZANU PF has won both constituencies but I do not have the exact figures owing to bad roads and poor communication with the result centres. The constituency registrars will have to travel physically to bring the results," Silaigwana said.

The Rushinga by-election was held to fill the vacancy left after the death of ZANU PF legislator Sandra Machirori, while the Chikomba poll was to replace the late ruling party parliamentarian and former information minister Tichaona Jokonya who died last June.

The poll results do not alter representation in the House of Assembly with the MDC maintaining control of the 41 seats it won in last year’s general election.

ZANU PF controls 78 seats it won in that poll plus another 30 seats occupied by individuals appointed to Parliament by Mugabe, giving the ruling party more than the two-thirds majority required to amend the Constitution.

The main faction of the MDC led by Morgan Tsvangirai took part in the Saturday election while the smaller wing of the fractured opposition party that is led by prominent academic Arthur Mutambara did not take part. ZANU PF won in 13 of 14 district wards in elections also conducted last Saturday. The MDC won in Manyene north ward.
Edited by ZimJournos Arise