Zimbabwe: You continue to amaze me.

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) announced that a recount of 23 districts shows the ZANU-PF regaining the majority in parliament, which it lost during the original vote tally. However, there is absolutely no reason to believe that this recount is fair and accurate, considering that fraud and corruption are the general modus operandi of the ZANU-led government, and there was no oversight or transparency with the recount. The results of the presidential election still have yet to be released.

Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party is distancing itself from an article in a state-run newspaper calling for a transitional unity government, led by Mugabe, to draft a new constitution and hold elections—an idea supported by South African presidential hopeful Jacob Zuma. But Mugabe isn’t exactly the power-sharing type, and frankly, any “unity” government under his leadership would be nothing more than a farce. This is a man who doesn’t respect any law but his own—what’s the point of a new constitution if he pays no heed to the current one?—and has repeatedly vowed that the MDC will never have power in Zimbabwe. History, people. Let’s learn from it.