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A
nation awaits
Bulawayo
Agenda
March 30, 2008
The
Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has made an annonoucement disputing
that results of the just ended harmonisd elections have been released.
This is after Tendai Biti, the MDC Tsvangirayi Secretary General
addressed an early morning briefing declaring that from the figures
that they had received from a parallel process of collating the
results from polling stations, MDC Tsvangirayi might as well declare
victory.
Describing their
victory as a Tsunami, Biti warned that his party would not accept
any thing less as they had irrefutable proof that they had won arguably
Zimbabwe's most contested election since independence.
Mr Lovemore
Sekeremayi, from the ZEC Directorate said that his organisation
was the only one mandated to release results which he said they
were in the process of collating. This has raised anxiety among
opposition supporters given that counting started soon after the
sealing of ballot boxes just after 7pm yesterday.
Government Information
and Publicity Secretary George Charamba waded into the fray claiming
in the state controlled press that any premature announcement of
victory was tantamount to a coup.
Meanwhile, the
national awaits with bated breath for the first confirmed results
of the election amidst fears that we might be headed for another
stolen election. Preliminary results from a select number of polling
stations point to a sweep for Morgan Tsvangirayi in both urban and
rural constituencies which used to be the stronhold of ZANU PF.
Reports say
that celebrations by MDC Tsvangirayi supporters in the town of Redcliff
in the Midlands have been suppressed by the police. In Gweru, a
heavy police and military presence in the street is noticeable though
people are going about their duties.
The ZEC said
that the results would be announced as they became available and
we will keep you informed as they are announced.
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