“Tsvangirai is above the 50% needed for a runoff,” Tendai Biti, MDC’s general secretary said in a press conference. The fear of a Kenyan situation Based on its own tally of the results, the opposition has already claimed victory and is now calling Mugabe to concede defeat and avoid embarrassment. According to MDC, Tsvangirai won 50,3% of the votes against 43,8% for Mugabe. Now the question of the presidential ballot remains. A MDC dissident faction and an independent runner won another 10 seats. The one sure thing is that it’s the opposition that’ll be dominating the next parliament.” Morgan Tsvangirai and his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) look to have taken 96 of the 210 seats in the National Assembly. “This election is a true yo-yo”, reports Caroline Dumay, FRANCE 24’s special correspondent in Zimbabwe. Yet the opposition is already claiming victory despite its leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, having declined to do so the day before. Meanwhile, the outcome of the presidential election still hasn’t been decided there are no official results. The authorities have barred most foreign media from entering the country during the election period.Īccording to the official results of the legislative poll published by the electoral commission on Wednesday, Mugabe’s party, the ZANU-PF, which has been ruling the country since its independence in 1980, lost its majority in parliament. In a separate development, Zimbabwean police arrested two foreign journalists on Thursday including New York Times correspondent Barry Bearak, accusing them of reporting on the election without authorisation. In his first public appearance since the election, Mugabe met the head of an African Union election observer team at his residence in Harare, ZTV state television reported. Zimbabwe's outgoing president Robert Mugabe met with his top aides on Thursday while the electoral commission announced that the publication of final result for the March 29 senatorial and presidential elections would be delayed because of "logistical problems."
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