 National and local leaders of Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party are converging on the town of Goromonzi, 40 kilometers east of Harare, for an annual convention where the agenda could include a two-year term extension for President Robert Mugabe.
The ZANU-PF conference was to begin Thursday in Goromonzi's high school. Six out of 10 of ZANU-PF's provincial committees have called for the presidential election slated for 2008 to be put off until 2010, ostensibly so that it can be held at the same time as parliamentary elections. But critics say this so-called "harmonization" of election schedules is just a ploy to keep Mr. Mugabe in office two years longer and thereby postpone what is certain to be a divisive internal succession debate. |
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