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>Agence France Presse November
>10, 2000
>
>Africa Offers To Send 'Observers' To Help U.S. End Poll Confusion
>
>PARIS - African nations suggested Friday sending 'observers' to the
>United States to help overcome presidential poll confusion as the world's
>press argued over whether it was witnessing electoral chaos or simply
>democracy in action.
> "International observers should be put in place" because "the United
>States must join the established democracies," said South Africa's daily
>Star.
> A top aide to Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe endorsed the
>idea: "perhaps now we have reached a time when they can learn a lot
>from us. Maybe Africans and others should send observers to help
>Americans deal with their democracy."
> Others fantasized about observers dressed in Hawaiian shirts and
>Bermuda shorts, alongside UN Blue Helmets, investigating Al Gore's
>campaign claim there were "serious and substantial irregularities" in the
>ballot.
> "It is a shameful reflection on our continent that, in the US's
>hour of
>need, we were not there beside our American brothers and sisters to help
>and advise where we could," said an editorial in South Africa's weekly
>Mail.
> As the presidential vote cliff-hanger threatened to drag on into next
>week, there was widespread surprise this could happen to the world's
>most famous democracy.
> "An American legend collapses -- suspicions of fraud in US vote," ran
>the headline in Turkey's mass-circulation Hurriyet daily.
> "Even in the United States there is electoral fraud," the Bulgarian
>financial daily Curentul wrote.
> Congo's independent La Reference Plus said Thursday the US vote
>provided "strong arguments for bad leaders and dictators in Africa."
> "If this happens in the United States, how do you want everything to
>be clean and transparent in the poor African continent," added the daily.
> Portugal's Diario de Noticias also echoed the view that democracy
>was being undermined: "In the end, this (US vote) is bad news for
>democracy in America. And in consequence, is bad news for democracy."
> But the French press dismissed that notion, saying the true winner in
>the US presidential elections was, in fact, none other than democracy.
> "The current crisis will be overcome," wrote the conservative daily Le
>Figaro, dismissing claims the chaos will damage the US.
> "In spite of waiting two more days and playing with the nerves of
>onlookers, it's only the vote count -- precisely because every vote counts -
>- which determines the outcome of the vote. That is democracy."
> Democracy is imperfect but "it's worked for two hundred years. And
>not that badly," it said.
> Britain's press, however, began dividing along party lines, debating
>the rights and wrongs of attempts of Democrat Al Gore camp to overturn
>the result in Florida, which his Republican rival George W. Bush won by a
>whisker, according to the initial count.
> "Desperate Al Gore began fighting dirty last night in his bid to
>snatch
>the US presidency," wrote Britain's best selling tabloid, The Sun.
> The right-leaning Daily Telegraph echoed this view, saying Gore's
>team had "opted to challenge the results rather than concede defeat
>graciously."
> The Guardian, however, came out in support of the vice president for
>the sake of US democracy.
> "It said there had to be challenges to the alleged "possible
>willful fraud
>and/or gross incompetence" and called for a re-run of the vote in areas
>where there had been significant irregularities.
>
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