Zimbabwe-elections Zimbabwe's legislative polls delayed to May: Mugabe HARARE, March 26 (AFP) - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe announced Sunday that parliamentary elections will be postponed until May due to extended efforts to update voter registers. "When all is set elections could be held early in May or mid-May," Mugabe said, adding that a specific poll date would be determined by how quickly voter registers could be updated. The United Nations last year said that a quarter of those listed on the voter registers had died, and another two million of the 5.8 million registered voters had moved constituencies since the last polls in 1995. The adjustment of constituencies will also determine the date of the elections, with Mugabe facing new credible opposition after two decades in power. A labour-based party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is expected to present the biggest challenge to the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF). Mugabe made the announcement after he met Namibian leader Sam Nujoma who stopped over in Harare on his way to Arusha, Tanzania for a new round of Burundi peace talks. Mugabe said the voter registration exercise, which was extended by two weeks to the end of March, had delayed the holding of elections in the traditional month of April. Last year Mugabe contradicted his Legal Affairs Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa who had said it was not possible to organise elections in April. sn/ sidi sanneh ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------