Thabo Mbeki Remains Confident Zimbabwe Power-Sharing Deal will Work

Former South African President Thabo Mbeki has said he remains optimistic that the power-sharing deal forged between Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai could be salvaged.

Mbeki is now in Harare following threats from Tsvangirai to abandon the deal after Mugabe members of his ZANU-PF party to several key cabinet positions. According to the power-sharing deal mediated by Mbeki the ZANU-PF was to have 14 cabinet posts while 13 were to go to Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change party and another 3 to an MDC faction led by Arthur Mutambara.

Over the weekend Mugabe filled positions that included Defense, Finance, Foreign Affairs and Justice, a move that Tsvangirai expressed outrage over.

Mbeki arrived on Monday in an attempt to bring the sides together but Mugabe has said the only cabinet position that would be up for discussion would be Finance.

Tsvangirai won the presidential election in March but officials declared he had not secured a large enough majority to avoid a run-off. With less than a week before that run-off vote Tsvangirai dropped out of the race after declaring Mugabe had used violence and intimidation to keep MDC supporters from the polls.

Mugabe has held the presidential office since 1980, the year Zimbabwe gained independence.

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