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Wed 07 Jul 2008Martin says Zimbabwe election an insult to democracy
THE REINAUGURATION of Robert Mugabe as president of Zimbabwe was “illegitimate” and “an insult to democracy”, according to Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin.
The Zimbabwe leader’s “sham re-election” had come “after a campaign of violence and other gross abuses that made free and fair elections impossible”, he told the Seanad yesterday.
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