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President's rally and comments on eve of elections

(30 Mar 2005) SHOTLIST 1. Various of buses driving past with Mugabe supporters 2. Man dancing with Mugabe poster 3. Poster reads: (in English) "2005 Elections: time to bury Blair and his puppets" 4. Various of supporters waving flags at rally 5. Various of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe greeting supporters 6. Wide shot of supporters 7. Close-up of woman with Zimbabwean flag 8. Wide shot of Mugabe and other officials on stage 9. Security 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe: "We have never ever said this country is free from hunger, never, we have droughts year in and year out. These days the climatic changes affect us indeed as the affect other countries. And when that happens we'll look at what we harvest and we look at the deficit and we import that deficit, we do. We can do it without aid, if their friends want to assist us, we say their assistance is welcome but it must not be conditional, never. We will not ask." 11. Supporters with posters 12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe: "No Tony Blair - why is he concerned about Zimbabwe? It's a serious matter here. No interference with our sovereignty! It's not permissible by international law. Why does he continue to have this obsession with Zimbabwe?" 13. Wide shot of Mugabe greeting supporters 14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe: "I am Catholic. The archbishop has now decided to pray to another god than the Catholic god, and I'm sorry about that. I'll pray for him. (Q: Are you going to serve out your term?) Yes, yes I'm here to do another three years, so..." 15. Mugabe's motorcade leaving rally STORYLINE A defiant President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday predicted his party would win in Zimbabwe's parliamentary elections, which critics have portrayed as a referendum on his increasingly isolated and repressive regime. Mugabe addressed more than 10,000 supporters at a rally in a densely populated neighbourhood of the capital. Opposition leaders are urging their supporters to go out in numbers on Thursday to show their discontent with years of declining incomes, soaring unemployment and rampant inflation. The opposition blames the country's economic woes on the government's often violent seizure of thousands of white owned commercial farms for redistribution to black Zimbabweans. Mugabe defends the programme as a way of righting severe racial imbalances in land ownership inherited from British colonial rule. He blames food shortages in a country that was once a regional breadbasket on years of crippling drought. At stake on Thursday are 120 elected parliamentary seats. Mugabe appoints another 30 seats, virtually guaranteeing his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front party a majority. The main opposition Movement for Democratic Change won 57 seats in the last parliamentary election in 2000, despite what Western observers called While there has been much less violence during this campaign, a coalition of local aid and rights groups said Wednesday the poll would not be free, fair or legitimate. Some 5.8 (m) million of Zimbabwe's nearly 12 (m) million people are registered to vote Thursday. But up to 3.4 (m) million Zimbabweans who live overseas - many of whom are believed to be opposition supporters - have been barred from casting ballots. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...