Mugabe 'planning revenge'
05/04/2008 10:23  - (SA)  

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Harare - Zimbabwe's opposition said on Saturday it feared Robert Mugabe was pushing for a presidential election run-off as part of a ploy to exact revenge and called for international intervention to avert bloodshed.

"For Mugabe, a run-off is a strategy for retribution," the Movement for Democratic Change's (MDC) chief spokesperson Nelson Chamisa told AFP.

"He is defeated, he wants a chance of retribution."

The MDC has proclaimed its leader Morgan Tsvangirai as the winner of last Saturday's election although there has been no official word on the outcome.

Chamisa said international intervention would avoid a repeat of the violence which followed Mugabe's defeat in a referendum eight years ago when he failed to get approval for changes to the constitution.

"He was beaten at the referendum in 2000 and we all know the violence which followed.

"This is what we want to avoid, rather than have the international community intervene after there has been bloodshed."

Mugabe's Zanu-PF party gave its backing on Friday for the veteran president to stand against Tsvangirai in a run-off.

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