On March 9 through 11, Zimbabweans went to the polls to choose a new president. It was a battle between two men - the incumbent president, Robert Mugabe backed by his party, Zanu-PF and Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, MDC. The campaign was acrimonious and often violent. For Mugabe, the reallocation of land from white farmer to black peasant was at the top of the agenda and his opponent was a mere stooge of Britain, the former colonial power, for opposing the forcible seizure of farms. For Tsvangirai, the land issue was a decoy put up by Mugabe to distract voters from the disastrous economic situation and the fact that, despite being 78 and already having chalked up 22 years in power, he was seeking a fifth term.
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