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Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Won Election But Faces Run-Off


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2 May 2008
Posted to the web 2 May 2008

Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai beat President Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe's presidential election on March 29, but not by a big enough margin to avoid a second round run-off.

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission announced on Friday that Tsvangirai had won 47.9 percent and Mugabe 43.2 percent of the vote, news agencies reported.

"Since no candidate has received the majority of the valid vote cast... a second election shall be held on a date to be advised by the commission," Lovemore Sekeramayi, chief elections officer, was reported as saying by Agence France-Presse.

Reuters reported that Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), which has repeatedly said he won more than 50 percent of the vote, rejected the commission's figures.

The MDC said before the announcement of the result that Tsvangirai would not enter a run-off, but the Zimbabwe Independent reports from Harare that he will take part, notwithstanding public remarks to the contrary.


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Author: onesoulzim1

Results at last! As easy as ABC, we hope as Zimbabweans one phase that we all were waiting to welcome is over and it had come without anyone taking it to the streets as incited by western states, media and British minded political buffoons. It is obvious that the fight is on Makoni votes. If the electorate saw Makoni as a Zanu PF stooge then no MDC supporter voted for him, If Makoni, as he said had backing from zanu PF bigwigs then the majority of his supporters are ZANU members disenchanted by Mugabe in person but would want to... [Read Full Text]

Author: tim

i don't think the recount shows that Mugabe has been fair just because they prove he still lost, the main aim of the recount was not to put Mugabe over MDC, but it was to have the run off by chopping off enough percentages from MDC in order for such an environment to be available.

Author: onesoulzim1

Given the ratio for parliamentary results it was apparent that the presidential results will give the three candidates under 50%+1 vote each. However the delay in announcing the presidential elections was not pleasing in terms of execution of duties by ZEC. If Mugabe wanted to doctor the results on the eve of elections he could have announced himself winner and let any query follow due process of law. Tsvangirai had already shown that he requires sympathy from British backed international community more than the very electorate who voted for him making it easy for Mugabe to act on the election... [Read Full Text]

Author: africa35

After a month yes the results were made public so I am not sure why you think that is okay and results are just. We all have seen Mugabe's track record and well I do not trust what was said b/c they are on Mugabe's side or afraid of what might happen if they share the truth. Anyway this second run off election can't happen until after 21 days but could not happen for a year under their so called rules so Mugabe is at work to undermine the people of Zimbabwe which now are starving and inflation... [Read Full Text]

Author: tim

it is really sad, very sad that some of us like one soul for zim can choose to ignore the facts right in front of them. if we can not see this ourself how then do we expect to improve our own countries. the results are out and guess what the mathematics has been applied to them, some people have inflated results and that suit us fine. i believe that the zimbabwen people can be able to solve the crisis they are in but that is if they are ready to admit that things are wrong and need action and... [Read Full Text]

Author: onesoulzim1

race! what race?

Author: selector

"onesoulforzim well if you are true to your name you would be supporting the people of Zimbabwe and not Mubgabe"

africa35, you appear to suggest that the good people of Zimbabwe and Mugabe are mutually exclusive. They are not. Mugabe and other Zimbabweans struggle to retain the sovereignty they fought so hard to win and have sacrificed so much to maintain. Many Zimbabweans, including Mugabe, see independece as a most precious commodity and are willing to guard it jealously. There are yet others in Zimbabwe who, naively, would exchange self-governance for Western international co-operation/jam today. With respect, I submit a... [Read Full Text]

Author: mindpower

selector, you can't compare Iraq and Zim. The Zim govt has been begging for money from the IMF since independence. And as soon as funds are withdrawn because they never repay the loans they complain that the IMF is being unfair.

African governments need to remember that the IMF is not a CHARITY.

Author: kjrs120

Selector what is independence? To me it is being able to stand on on my own great strengths. As a leader of a nation, it is allowing citizens to prosper through good governance by not only guarding them and all the resources they have entrusted to me, but making sure they enjoy freedom of speech,freedom of the press, and freedom to vote. That is the kind of independence to be guarded jealously.

Author: mindpower

onesoul, once again you present us with your brainwashed drivel. The white farmers in Zim wanted land reform, but they wanted it done sensibly. Instead most of the land was given to ZANU-PF cronies who don't use the land for anything productive.

You bring out the Britain card in every post you make. Honestly, you sound just like that fool Mugabe who has ruined Zimbabwe. He may have been a hero once but today he is no more than a tyrant.

Why don't you give your Mugabe propaganda a rest? If we want to read rubbish we can look at... [Read Full Text]


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