Monday March 31, 2008
Zimbabwe opposition fears vote-rigging
Chris McGreal
Guardian
Zimbabwe's election commission today began releasing a trickle of results from Saturday's presidential and parliamentary elections as the opposition voiced fears that the count was being manipulated in favour of the president, Robert Mugabe.
The first results were for 38 seats in the lower house of parliament, won in equal numbers by the ruling Zanu-PF party and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change.
Among those who lost their seats was the justice minister, Patrick Chinamasa, one of Mugabe's close allies, whom the opposition has accused of abusing the law to persecute Zanu-PF's opponents.
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