When my party won the elections convincingly on February 18th, 2008, we immediately reached out to other parties to form broad-based coalitions of national unity in the National Assembly and in the four provincial assemblies.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
And under our system, much like you see in the U.K., of course, a party working with another party can form a coalition and govern the country.
If you establish a right unity government, you create an effective platform to make... decisions because you have wider support of your own party.
In 1999, I established my political party.
I've been in a lot of elections.
I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.
I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm.
What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked.
It was not my wish to come into politics. I was not a public person; I preferred to spend my birthdays with family and friends. But the 2008 elections were fraudulent, so I decided to finance the opposition to make them stronger.
I'm not going to join any party. If I do vote again, and if I do become, you know, politically active, it will be independent.
The election result is not a victory that belongs to me or my party.