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Opposition Holds Gains in Zimbabwe Recount

Overturned results now look unlikely

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 26, 2008 8:40 AM CDT
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(Newser) – With recounts confirming results on seven more seats today, Zimbabwe’s opposition party seems less and less at risk of losing the new majority gained in parliamentary elections last month, the BBC reports. Ten seats remain in the recount, and Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF needs nine to regain power in the country’s lower house.

After 4 weeks, presidential election returns still haven’t been released. US envoy Jendayi Frazier says government intimidation has now rendered a run-off presidential vote impossible; the only way forward now, she said, would be an inclusive regime led by opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.

A Zimbabwean police officer guards ballot boxes stacked in a corridor at a command center in Murombedzi, about 100 kms west of Harare, Zimbabwe Saturday April 19, 2008.
A Zimbabwean police officer guards ballot boxes stacked in a corridor at a command center in Murombedzi, about 100 kms west of Harare, Zimbabwe Saturday April 19, 2008.   (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of Zimbabwe's Movement For Democratic Change opposition party, front, leaves the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa, Friday, April 18, 2008.
Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of Zimbabwe's Movement For Democratic Change opposition party, front, leaves the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa, Friday, April 18, 2008.   (AP Photo/STAR, Paballo Thekiso)
An armed member of Zimbabwe's National Army on guard during President Robert Mugabe's tour of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Friday, April, 25, 2008.
An armed member of Zimbabwe's National Army on guard during President Robert Mugabe's tour of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Friday, April, 25, 2008.   (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
President Robert Mugabe during his tour at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Friday, April, 25, 2008.
President Robert Mugabe during his tour at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Friday, April, 25, 2008.   (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
A Zimbabwean police officer guards ballot boxes at a command center in Murombedzi, about 100 km west of Harare, Zimbabwe Saturday, April 19, 2008.
A Zimbabwean police officer guards ballot boxes at a command center in Murombedzi, about 100 km west of Harare, Zimbabwe Saturday, April 19, 2008.   (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
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