The 2009 TIME 100 Finalists

Cast your votes for the leaders, artists, entrepreneurs and thinkers who deserve a spot on this year's TIME 100. — By Brian Raftery

Robert Mugabe

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AGE: 85
OCCUPATION: President of Zimbabwe
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0

PRO: After winning a suspicious electoral runoff, Mugabe must guide an increasingly on-the-brink country that's facing a cholera epidemic, a moribund economy and a shortage of public services.

CON: Mugabe's astonishing history of corruption doesn't bode well for change Zimbabweans can believe in.

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