Politics - Kenya ¦ Zimbabwe and Electral Commisions

I know that the Zimbabwe elections seem to echo Kenya's last election, but there is one major difference: Morgan Tsvangirai is not letting the "masses" speculation massage his ego into declaring himself president BEFORE the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission declares the winner! He has even managed so far to ward off speculation of Mugabe stepping down, rumours of Mugabe conceding defeat in other words loads of speculation especially of him rigging his way to power. All this caused because of a delay in tallying the presidential results! Every western nation seems to demand Mugabe to loose or give up power and are even demanding it more & more.

The question I would like to pause to anyone reading this blog is: What if Mugabe really wins the presidential election by a very likely slim 1% margin just enough for him to avoid a run-off, this in the light that his party has lost the majority in parliament? Should the opposition then go the Kenyan way of mass demonstrations? There are presidents in this world who rule without a majority in parliament why should Zimbabwe be different or before it Kenya?

I really wonder how Kenya would have been perceived worldwide had Odinga gone to court to challenge the presidential results (why were they the only ones that were rigged?) instead of calling for mass demonstrations.

The ECK meanwhile has as predicted declined to acknowledge the stolen "serious mistakes" report.

Anyway, we now have a PNUODM government with a massive 44 member cabinet which will eat into our resources and Kenyans should not expect any meaningful development until the coalition breaks up in a year or two and one of the party wins the following election out rightly. What really makes me angry is why both parties did not name their cabinet members immediately. Do Kenyans really have to wait till Sunday to know whose in?

I predict that the following days newspapers will be full of speculation and leaked inside information as to who is in and whose out with some very pissed off parliamentarians threatening to dump the party or cause chaos by ...you guessed it... calling for mass demonstrations! Well that is Kenyan politics for you :-/!