With no credible successor to unite the factions quarrelsome that threaten to break up the party, its officials they need Mr. Mugabe, while there still, 87, has been in power for 31 years, the campaign for another term of five years, the force for a revenge against his rival établiPremier Minister Morgan Tsvangirai59.
"There is urgency, real emergency," said a party insider, speaking anonymously because of the delicacy of the subject. "The old man is not the same that it was.".
The Zimbabwe neighbors, who favoured a Government power-sharing, led by Mr Mugabe and Mr Tsvangirai after an election discredited in 2008, have strongly developed warning against to organize another too early. But a separate Mugabe confidante said holders of power of the party concerned that the President would most be a plausible candidate next year.
"Imagine him being supported all the way to the podium to address a rally and tell people that it is the future of this country," said the confidant of Mugabe. "Even the most fervent supporters believe not that.".
The intensity of the determination of the party to hold an election this year was evident as a newspaper controlled by the Party of Mr. Mugabe led an attack on the South Africa President, Jacob Zuma, the mediator in the crisis extraordinary political in the ZimbabweAfter having publicly called for an end to political violence in the country.
South Africa has long been criticized for hatching Mr. Mugabe with a decade of rigged elections stained with blood, but the week last Mr. Zuma convinced regional leaders to approve affirmative efforts, lot of time to ensure that Zimbabweans to vote next timethey would be able to do so freely and fairly.
"There is no way that we agree on an election to the Zimbabwe when the institutions needed to ensure a credible, free and fair election are not in place", Mr. Zuma said Mr Mugabe and Mr Tsvangirai at the meeting, according to Mr. ZumaZulu Lindiwe.
A day later, Mr. Mugabe said attitude central Committee of the party that the neighbours of the Zimbabwe should not be meddling in political affairs and urged his followers to prepare for an election. An editorial in The Sunday Mail, a newspaper controlled by the State, has accused Mr. Zuma of duplicity and dishonesty and called a puppet of the West.
South African officials reacted strongly to the vitriolic attack, personal on the most powerful in the region nation President and spokesperson for Mr Mugabe this week sought to soften the tone of the Zimbabwe, saying that the editorial was not government policy.
"Erratic behaviour of President Jacob Zuma is the stuff of legend," one of Mr. Mugabe loyalists wrote in opening the editorial line.
Overbearing rule of Mr Mugabe has resulted in disastrous economic decline of the country, widespread corruption and an intensely repressive society, but as the centrepiece of the State, there is uncertainty about whether his death would result in a military coupa vicious internal battle within his partiZANU-PF, or some yet unexpected results.
"Health of Mugabe is a question of national instability," said Mr. Tsvangirai. After pressure by regional leaders in the agreement for sharing power with Mr Mugabe, his enemy political, two years ago, Mr Morgan Tsvangirai, has said her partner remains dominant, "he left the estate of way too late"., and there is now a division between the two main factions of ZANU-PF. ?
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And he made a crackdown on pro-democracy civic groups members of the Party of Mr Tsvangirai, movement for democratic change. The authorities banned his gatherings, raflés activists and the Labour Party and put loads of riot police in the streets to head off protests.
The revolutions in North Africa and especially the support of South Africa for a no-fly in Libya area, have rattled the sprawling spy operation, controlled by the Party of Mr Mugabe. Dozens of students, trade unionists and activists who had gathered to watch reports of uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt were arrested in February and accused of treason, accused of conspiring to oust Mr Mugabe.
A journalist at the Zimbabwe contributed reporting.
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