In a move that should surprise no one at all, leading members of Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF have been pushing Mugabe to form a new government immediately with a composition favorable to the party. Mugabe is likely to comply, which will sound the final death knell of the negotiations with Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC and will accomplish what most of us suspected was the only solution Mugabe ever wanted: A continued hold on power. The elections were never legitimate, the runoff that followed was never legitimate, and it is quite clear that the supposed power-sharing negotiations have at no point been legitimate inasmuch as Mugabe and the ZANU-PF politburo never intended to share power.
