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Mugabe's Party OKs Run-Off

Ruling regime still sitting on Zimbabwe election results

By Harry Kimball, Newser Staff

Posted Apr 4, 2008 4:30 PM CDT

(Newser) – As Zimbabwe awaits official results of last week’s election, president Robert Mugabe’s party announced today that he would not oppose a run-off with opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, CNN reports. The law requires the electoral commission to report results within 6 days of an election, but no results materialized; Tsvangirai’s party has vowed to sue if results are not announced.

His party, the MDC, has declared Tsvangirai the winner of Saturday's elections with more than 50% of the vote. The state-run newspaper, however, reported that neither candidate recorded a simple majority, necessitating a run-off. In parliamentary elections the same day, the MDC took a slim lead over Mugabe’s ruling Zanu-PF. Reports of government raids and jailed journalists persisted today.

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe. (AP Photo)

A pedestrian passes election posters in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Thursday, April 3, 2008. (AP Photo)

Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the main opposition party in Zimbabwe. (AP Photo/Mujahid Safodien)

A Zimbabwean woman reads The Herald daily in Harare on April... (Getty Images (by Event) Individuals)

Men sit beneath election posters in Chitungwiza township, near Harare, April 4, 2008. Zimbabwe's ruling party says there will be a runoff election between Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai. (AP Photo)

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