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No majority for Mugabe Zanu-PF party in Zimbabwe recount
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission said that in the 14 out of 23 seats recounted so far, the original results were confirmed.
- Agencies
- Published: 19:30 April 26, 2008
- Image Credit: AP
- Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change supporters are taken by police from outside the Harvest House, the headquarters of the MDC, in Harare, Zimbabwe.
Harare: President Robert Mugabe's party has failed to secure control of Zimbabwe's parliament in a partial recount of the March 29 election, results showed on Saturday, handing the ruling party its first defeat in 28 years.
Results of a parallel presidential poll have not been released and Mugabe has been preparing for a run-off against Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
Tsvangirai says he won outright and his party has rejected both the recount and any run-off.
For the first time since Zimbabwe's independence from Britain in 1980, the MDC wrested a parliamentary majority from Mugabe's ZANU-PF in the election, triggering a recount of 23 out of 210 constituencies.
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission said that in the 14 out of 23 seats recounted so far, the original results were confirmed.
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