Zimbabwe opposition rejects recount
MDC chief Morgan Tsvangirai wants poll panel to announce election results officially.
The state-run Sunday Mail said “Zanu-PF has requested the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to recount and audit all its electoral material … following revelations of errors and miscalculations in the compilation of the poll result.
The MDC has said that if the electoral commission is forced to present the results of the March 29 poll they will show that Tsvangirai was the winner.
“President Mugabe and Zanu-PF should accept the results. The MDC won the election and will not accept the suppression of the will of the people.”
‘Preparing a war’
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But Patrick Chinamasa, a Zanu-PF spokesman, dismissed the allegation, saying: “We are a peace-loving party and the people of Zimbabwe will not forgive anyone who foments violence.”
The incident came after the country’s so-called war veterans – many of whom were born after independence in 1980 – vowed to occupy all the remaining white-owned farms in Masvingo province.
Mugabe has signalled that he is willing to enter into a run-off vote for the presidency [AFP] |
In a separate article in the Sunday Mail it was reported that Zanu-PF had rejected an offer to form a unity government with the MDC.
“Approaches were made by [the MDC] to form a government of national unity.