Mugabe hints at March polls
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has set out plans for a constitutional referendum in November and elections in March, a timetable that was quickly denounced by the opposition as "unrealistic".
In a High Court filing seen yesterday, Mugabe, 88, set out his most concrete timetable to date for two votes that are key to a bipartisan deal designed to stop Zimbabwe descending further into political violence.
Setting out the popular votes to be held in the next six months, Mugabe listed a "referendum, expected to take place during the first week of November."
The document also said Mugabe, who is in power for the last 32 years, wanted to "hold the harmonised elections in the last week of March 2013".
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