Zimbabwe go to the polls Wednesday in a competitive election against Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, who had vowed to promote Africa's oldest leader for 33 years after retirement electricity pitting President Robert Mugabe.
In the absence of reliable opinion polls, it is difficult to say whether the 61-year-old Tsvangirai unseat his 89-year-old Mugabe in 1980, since independence from Britain, has been running for a third country in southern Africa attempt is successful.
Both sides predict landslide victory, but the bigger problem is that in a country's history of election-related violence, the losers would accept tough logistical problems and allegations of electoral fraud poll results.
When asked at the eve of the vote, and if he and his ZANU-PF party would accept defeat, Mugabe is clear: "If you go into a process and join the competition, there were only two results, win or lose, you can not Either you win or lose, if you lose, you have to surrender. "
Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), a spokesman said, the party is only prepared to accept the results of the poll, if it is "free and fair."
Mugabe, then what he described as "energy weaken" campaign theme contrasts and may repeat violence broke out, he lost in the first round of elections in 2008 to quell concerns.
Around 200 supporters of Tsvangirai was killed in the riots, former South African brokered a power-sharing agreement to stop the bloodshed and stable economy, but rather the establishment of a government characterized as irritability, abnormal.
Western election observers have been banned in the election of independent oversight tasks, leaving 500 regions and 7,000 domestic monitors.
Voting am EST open a close at 1 pm EDT, on a five-day legal limit and the expected results. There are about 640 million people, or half the population, registered to vote.
Judgment observers to Zimbabwe's economy is still trapped in a decade-long recession and hyperinflation in 2009 at the end of worthless Zimbabwean dollar was abandoned after the future is essential.
If it is to be widely ratified, there is a chance that Western sanctions could be eased, allowing the Harare International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank to normalize relations and access huge amounts of investment needed to rebuild its damaged economy.
Despite this, Tsvangirai called on African monitor does not give a vote thumbs up, simply because they did not witness the bloodshed.
"Mugabe is the world's oldest leader and its one of the longest reigning dictator, he fixed the election in a more complex fashion than previously NLD beatings, killings and intimidation," he wrote. : "Washington Post" in an editorial.
"Mugabe's electoral theft antics have been documented throughout Zimbabwe and beyond, but the international community seems indifferent; Mugabe may have stolen the world for so long has just launched its eyes and moving elections."
 



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