Posted on 10/16/2009 5:13:28 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
Zimbabwe's troubled national unity government moved a step closer to breakdown Friday as Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said his formation of the Movement for Democratic Change would cease to interact with its governing partner, the former ruling ZANU-PF party of President Robert Mugabe, following this week's arrest of a top MDC official.
Mr. Tsvangirai told reporters in Harare his MDC would "disengage" from ZANU-PF "until such time as confidence and respect are restored among us," clearly alluding to the indictment of MDC Treasurer and Senator Roy Bennett on charges of possessing weapons for purposes of terrorism, and his incarceration following the related revocation of his bail.
A High Court judge reinstated Bennett's bail, which the Supreme Court had ordered granted, and Bennett was freed later Friday from the remand prison in Mutare, the capital of eastern Manicaland province where he had once been a commercial farmer.
But Mr. Tsvangirai said his decision also had to to with the mounting number of unresolved issues that have troubled the unity government since its inception in February, which he said remained unresolved because ZANU-PF has shown no commitment to doing so.
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