Iran Press/ Africa: Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa was re-elected for a second and final five-year term Saturday as results were announced much earlier than expected following a troubled vote in the southern African country.
An opposition party spokesperson said within minutes of the results being announced that they would reject them as “hastily assembled without proper verification.”
Mnangagwa won 52.6% of the votes in the midweek election, the Zimbabwe Election Commission said in a late-night announcement in the capital, Harare. Main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa got 44%, the commission said. The results were released around 11.30 p.m.
The presidential results were welcomed by the celebratory cheers of a few ruling party supporters at the news conference venue.
But Promise Mkwananzi, a spokesman for Chamisa’s Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) said the party did not sign the final tally, which he described as “false”. 219
