A Unity Government, At Last

摘要

Few seriously believed it would, or could, really happen. On February nth, almost a year after elections which saw Robert Mugabe's ruling zanu-pf party defeated for the first time since independence in 1980, Morgan Tsvangi-rai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), was sworn in as prime minister, It is a post reinvented for the leader of the country's main opposition party under a deal in which Mr Mugabe is meant to share power.rnUp until the last moment, there had been doubts as to whether Mr Tsvangirai would actually agree to enter the unity government. Several of the conditions he had set for taking part in it had not been met, such as the release of about 30 mdc and human-rights people, abducted, tortured and detained. But in the end, he seems to have decided that a bad deal was better for Zimbabwe's wretched people than no deal at all. He, unlike Mr Mugabe, refers to the government as "transitional", regarding it as a precursor to fresh elections.