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Zimbabwe Election Runoff Set for June 27
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| Contributor | Ashley |
| Last Edited | Ashley May 23, 2008 07:29pm |
| Category | News |
| News Date | May 17, 2008 12:30pm |
| Description | JOHANNESBURG — Zimbabwe’s delayed runoff election between President Robert Mugabe, who has led the nation for nearly three decades, and the opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has been set for June 27, the country’s election commission said Friday.
That means the second round of voting for the presidency would take place nearly three months after the first. The official results of the March 29 balloting were not even announced until May 2, showing Mr. Tsvangirai with 47.9 percent and Mr. Mugabe with 42.3 percent.
Mr. Tsvangirai, a former trade union leader who has already survived assassination attempts and a brutal assault by the police in Zimbabwe in March 2007, left Zimbabwe barely a week after the election, saying that his party’s unofficial tally showed he had won an outright majority — eliminating any need for a runoff — and that the delay in announcing the results was an effort to finagle the outcome. |
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