The opposition, led by Morgan Tsvangirai, received a boost when Bernard Kouchner, the French foreign minister, said in a television broadcast that the European Union would insist that Mr. Tsvangirai lead the proposed national unity government.
He said he expected that Mnangagwa – a former freedom fighter, spymaster and long-term Mugabe ally before their falling out – would lead the interim national unity administration that would focus on rebuilding the shattered economy and restoring Zimbabwe's standing in the international community.
But that break lasted only until Mr. Peres, a rival, stepped in as party elder to lead the negotiations for a unity government with Mr. Sharon's Likud.
The unity government would lead the country until the presidential election, scheduled for February.
At this critical juncture, Yuan appeared to conservatives and revolutionaries alike as the only man who could lead the country to peace and unity, and so both the emperor in Beijing and the provisional president in Nanjing recommended Yuan to be the first president of China.
To Hegel, the state was the culmination of moral action, where freedom of choice had led to the unity of the rational will, and all parts of society were nourished within the health of the whole.
Born in 1949 in what Ms Lombard describes as CAR's "remote, neglected, and largely Muslim north-east", Mr Djotodia led the Union of Democratic Forces for Unity (UFDR) into a coalition with other rebel groups to form Seleka, which spearheaded the offensive to overthrow Mr Bozize.
Those who had expected that the removal of the unpopular Ngos would lead to unity and a more vigorous prosecution of the war were swiftly disillusioned.
The top US envoy to Africa, Jendayi Frazer, told reporters in southern Africa this week that Tsvangirai had won the right to lead any unity government.
Fatah has nominated Salam Fayyad, the current prime minister of the Palestinian Authority government, to lead a unity government of independent technocrats.
