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Zanu-PF to endorse Mugabe
09/12/2007 09:13 - (SA)
Harare - Zimbabwe's ruling party will on Tuesday begin an extraordinary congress and President Robert Mugabe is expected to be endorsed as its sole presidential flagbearer in next year's poll, party officials said.
The four-day congress, to be staged in capital Harare, is also expected to draw a roadmap for Zimbabwe's political and economical policies for the next five years, officials said.
According to the agenda of the congress obtained by AFP, the Zanu-PF will declare veteran Mugabe, who has been in power since 1980, president of the party and its sole state candidate for the March elections.
Jabulani Sibanda, chairperson of the war veterans, said the major highlight of the congress will be the endorsement of Mugabe, 83, as the party's sole candidate for the election.
"As war veterans we are 100% behind President Mugabe, no amount of hunger, pressure and threats from Britain will make us change that position. Nothing will stop us from supporting our president," he said.
Mugabe's relations with his former allies in Europe, including Britain, plummeted after he embarked on a controversial programme in 2000 to seize white-owned farms and he was slapped with a raft of sanctions after he allegedly rigged his 2002 re-election.
The congress will discuss the state of the economy, the 2007 agricultural season as well as confirm amendments to the Constitution which allow for joint parliamentary and presidential polls in March next year.
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