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Mugabe's Party Wins First Recount

Posted Apr 23, 08 8:56 AM CDT in World    Editor's Choice

(Newser) – Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF has won the first of the parliamentary recounts, the BBC reports, retaining a seat challenged by the MDC opposition party. The MDC says the partial recount, which mainly targets MDC seats, is an attempt to rig the election. Zanu-PF meanwhile tried to distance itself from an editorial in the state-run newspaper calling for a power-sharing deal to resolve the presidential election crisis.

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Electoral officials count ballots in Domboshawa, near the Zimbabwean capital of Harare Saturday, April 19, 2008.   (AP Photo)
Electoral officials count ballots in Domboshawa, near the Zimbabwean capital Harare Saturday, April 19, 2008.   (AP Photo)
Electoral officials count ballots in Domboshawa, near the capital Harare Saturday, April 19, 2008.   (AP Photo)
Electoral officials count ballots in Domboshawa, near the Zimbabwean capital of Harare Saturday, April 19, 2008.   (AP Photo)
A man walks in a corridor stacked with ballot boxes at a command center in Murombedzi, about 100 kms west of Harare, Zimbabwe Saturday April 19, 2008.   (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
Phineas Nyandoro narrates how he was attacked by a suspected Zanu PF supporters in Gutu, about 150 kms south of Harare, Zimbabwe Tuesday April, 22, 2008.   (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
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