Former President Mugabe: I do not vote for my successor

Former President Robert Mugabe (94) said Sunday morning at a press conference that he would not vote for his successor, Emmerson Mnangagwa (76), at the time of the event. 39th Zimbabwean presidential election on Monday. "I do not vote for those who took power illegally." Mnangagwa is the candidate of Mugabe's old party, Zanu-Pf.

Mugabe was Zimbabwe's second president after independence and held power for over thirty years. Last November, the parliament began a procedure against him on the day of his resignation. Then Vice President Mnangagwa succeeded him.

Now, the former president said that the current government had made a "coup" de facto. According to him, the Secretary of Defense, Sydney Sekaramayi, should have assumed the presidency of him, not Mnangagwa. Mugabe said that he hopes the people will say goodbye to the "military government". He hopes that he will vote for "democracy, constitutionality and freedom" and against "hypocrisy". But he called on the people to accept the result and said, "Whoever wins, I wish them success."

Presidential candidates

There are 23 candidates running for the Zimbabwean presidency. two candidates seem to have the most chances: current President Emmerson Mnangagwa (76) of Zimbabwean government party Zanu-Pf and opposition leader Nelson Chamisa (40) of the MDC alliance. rumors that Mugabe Chamisa (financially) supports the former president does not go into the press conference.He says that he "seems to be doing well" during the campaign.

On Sunday morning, reporters were rushed to Mugabe's luxurious Blue House in Harare when a press conference suddenly announced, the AP news agency. C was the first public appearance of Mugabe since his resignation – twenty-four hours before the presidential elections hist in Zimbabwe, it is the first time that it has not participated since the independence of the African country.

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The current President Mnangagwa suffers in the public eye from the image of the ruling party of the army chiefs who led the country with an iron fist during decades. In June, an attack was made on Mnangagwa. Someone threw him a grenade after a speech. Two of his bodyguards were killed but the president remained unscathed.

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