Zimbabwe not pleased with Clinton

Trying to get the Democratic Paryt to count the votes and delegates from the disputed Florida and Michigan primaries, Hillary Clinton has compared her fight to voting rights struggles of the past: women's suffrage, the civil rights movement, and the 2000 presidential election debacle.

But when she likened the situation to the disputed Zimbabwe election, that didn't sit well with that African country's government.

Clinton told Florida voters last week about countries that "go through the motions of an election only to have them discarded and disregarded. We're seeing that right now in Zimbabwe. Tragically, an election was held, the president lost, they refused to abide by the will of the people. So we can never take for granted our precious right to vote."

Official figures showed that opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai beat President Robert Mugabe in the March election, but did not win a clear majority so faces a runoff election on June 27.

This week, according to accounts in the Zimbabwe press, the nation's ambassador to the United States, Machivenyika Mapuranga said Clinton's comparison was made "out of ignorance or malice" and do not "tally with the facts."

"There were four presidential candidates and none of them attained the requisite threshold of 50 percent plus 1 votes," Mapuranga said. "The Electoral Act provides that in that event there must be a run-off between the two top candidates."

CLARIFICATION: The reports of Mapuranga's comments originally appeared on ReddingNewsReview.com.