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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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