{"id":397,"date":"2005-04-01T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-01T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/04\/01\/zimbabwe-update\/"},"modified":"2005-04-01T11:08:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-01T11:08:00","slug":"zimbabwe-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/04\/zimbabwe-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publiuspundit.com\/?p=794\">Publius Pundit has pretty much all the info on Zimbabwe&#8217;s elections you&#8217;ll need<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As of 10am UK time, the opposition <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/africa\/4399501.stm\">Movement for Democratic Change has won 31 of the 39 declared seats<\/a>, although <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sokwanele.com\/blog\/2005_04_01_blogarchive.html#111234397943322545\">This is Zimbabwe reports<\/a> that &#8220;presiding officers were instructed to openly flout the law by imposing a news black-out on the results until authorised to release them by Harare.&#8221; There are also reports of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/world\/africa\/articles\/2005\/04\/01\/thousands_blocked_from_zimbabwe_polls\/\">tens of thousands of voters being disenfranchised<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even if the incredible does happen, and the opposition manage to overcome Mugabe&#8217;s dodgy tactics (even if they seem to have been surprisingly nonviolent this time), The Zimbabwean notes that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thezimbabwean.co.uk\/1-april-2005\/lead.html\">the MDC will still not be able to form a government<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It has to be said &#8211; considering the date I&#8217;m wondering if these early, hopeful results aren&#8217;t just an elaborate and sick practical joke to piss off the opposition even more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publius Pundit has pretty much all the info on Zimbabwe&#8217;s elections you&#8217;ll need. As of 10am UK time, the opposition Movement for Democratic Change has won 31 of the 39 declared seats, although This is Zimbabwe reports that &#8220;presiding officers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/04\/zimbabwe-update\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}