Translate the following English sentence to French:
"They were a defeat in the sense that, for the first time in its short independent life, Zimbabwe has a multi-party political system, which was something that Mugabe clearly opposed."
La défaite consiste en ce que, pour la première fois dans sa courte vie d' indépendance, le Zimbabwe dispose d' un système politique pluraliste auquel Mugabe s' opposait de toute évidence.