NOVANEWS
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has already refused to accept the results describing parliamentary polls as fraudulent.
According to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, the ruling Zanu-PF party has won 137 seats in the 210-seat chamber, just short of two-thirds.
A spokesman for the ruling party has said the incumbent president could win up to 75 percent of the vote.
Meanwhile, a leading Zimbabwean opposition figure has denounced the disputed vote as a sham, saying he would not accept the results. Roy Bennett, the veteran opposition leader called for a campaign of “passive resistance” against the controversial results.
Prime Minister Tsvangirai has said his MDC would no longer deal with Zanu-PF and promised to challenge the “fraudulent” election results in court.
The results of the presidential vote are yet to be announced.
Meanwhile, UN chief Ban Ki-moon has called for calm amid rising fears over the repeat of the bloody unrest that broke out in the aftermath of the 2008 elections in Zimbabwe.
Mugabe has become Africa’s oldest leader at 89, having ruled Zimbabwe since its independence in 1980.
Mugabe and Tsvangirai have been sharing power since 2009, following a deal brokered by a regional bloc to end the unrest sparked after a disputed poll in 2008.
Violence broke out in the last presidential election in 2008, forcing Tsvangirai out of the race despite a first round win after 200 of his supporters were killed in the unrest.
