Zimbabwe's opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, says he will contest a run-off presidential election against the incumbent, Robert Mugabe.
But, Tsvangirai told a press conference in Pretoria that he would only participate in a second round of voting if international observers and media were granted full access to the polls. Official results from the March 29 first round of voting gave Tsvangirai 47.9 percent of the vote, compared with 43.2 percent for Mugabe. But his Movement for Democratic Change has claimed that it had figures that showed that Tsvangirai took more than 50 percent of the vote, which would have been enough to Tsvangirai to contest Zimbabwe presidential run-off ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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