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       Zimbabwe Election: Emmerson Mnangagwa Declared Winner In First P
       oll Since Mugabe
       By: sparrow Date: August 2, 2018, 6:41 pm
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       Incumbent Emmerson Mnangagwa has won Zimbabwe’s presidential
       election, according to official results, in a poll marred by
       deadly violence and opposition allegations of vote rigging.
       Mnangagwa, of the ruling ZANU-PF party, won 50.8 percent of the
       votes cast, with his closest rival Nelson Chamisa, of the
       Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) alliance, garnering 44.3
       percent, Zimbabwe’s electoral commission announced in the
       capital, Harare, early on Friday.
       A candidate needed more than 50 percent of the votes to secure
       an outright victory in Monday’s poll.
       Mnangagwa, a former vice president popularly known as “the
       crocodile” because of his political shrewdness, has been in
       power since November 2017 following the resignation of long-time
       president Robert Mugabe in the wake of a military intervention.
       The 75-year-old has promised to bring in foreign investment and
       create much-needed jobs.
       ZANU-PF, which has ruled the southern African country since
       independence in 1980, also won a clear majority in the 210-seat
       parliament.
       The ruling party won 145 seats, followed by the MDC which took
       63. The National Patriotic Front and an independent candidate
       also picked up one seat each.
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