ZEC have confirmed 27th June as the date for the Presidential run-off - well past the date required by law, but I understand that Presidential powers have been used to amend the relevant laws accordingly (although how Presidential laws can be used when there technically is no President at the moment is another thing).  Tsvangirai [...]

Not that they really had any choice - it was either take part, of hand Bob a “legitimate” victory on a silver platter. The text of Morgan Tsvangirai’s speech announcing the MDC’s decision to take part is below the cut.
They’ve set pre-conditions, including free access to foreign observers & media and an SADC ‘peacekeeping’ [...]

So the fully-fiddled results are in - Tsvangirai 47.9%, Mugabe 43.2%, Makoni 8.3%, Towungana 0.6%. No-one really believes that they’re the accurate results, but they’re the ones we have to work with. The newly-reunited MDC now faces a tricky decision:
- Boycott the run-off in the name of saving the lives of their supporters [...]