The government has announced that parliamentary elections would be held before March next year. The Zimbabwe Liberators Platform (ZLP) fears that the main political parties will concentrate their energies on winning the elections and shift their attention from addressing the deepening political and socio-economic crisis. "The same conditions of impoverishment and political tension will be carried over to the period after the election. There is need to focus on the national crisis and not elections because the crisis of governance is deepening. ZLP's considered view is that without a new electoral framework and a new democratic constitution, the elections will be far from being free and fair."