While many within the MDC remain sceptical over the future of the unity government, others have been reassured by the intervention of South Africa's caretaker President, Kgalema Motlanthe.
He added: "I'm not going to sacrifice the future of our country, the unity of our country, I'm not going to give in to SNP demands around Trident, around the deficit or anything like that".
"I'm not going to sacrifice the future of our country, the unity of our country, I'm not going to give in to SNP demands around Trident, the deficit or anything like that," he told Question Time election special.
"I'm not going to sacrifice the future of our country, the unity of our country, I'm not going to give in to SNP demands around Trident, around the deficit or anything like that," he told the Question Time audience.
But he warned against a retreat into nationalism after Brexit, saying the bloc could enjoy a future of "unity and cohesion" but only if EU and national leaders guarded against "the major risk – that of dislocation, egotism, a turning in on ourselves".
The war in the Mid East has minimized the chance of European unity & makes the future of Soviet-American detente uncertain.
"The future of the euro is inseparable from European unity," she said.
And so Mrs Merkel concluded her speech with: "The future of the euro is inseparable from European unity".
It was supposed to be a call for unity and for the future of the aching Republican party.
She also criticised Yushchenko, telling the BBC that he had "practically ruined our unity, our future, the future of the country", and that the president's action was absolutely illogical.
