Zimbabwe electoral commission
MDC Alliance to challenge Zim election results
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission announced in the early hours of Friday morning that Emmerson Mnangagwa received 50.8% while Nelson Chamisa scored 44.3%.
The ZEC announced that Emmerson Mnangagwa had received 50.8% of the votes while his political opponent Nelson Chamisa secured 44.3%.
Zanu-PF's Emmerson Mnangagwa has beaten the MDA Alliance's Nelson Chamisa in the race for Zimbabwe's presidential election.
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission announced that it will make public the presidential election results at 10 pm on Thursday evening.
Supporters of Nelson Chamisa in Johannesburg say they are willing to go to Zimbabwe to join protests against the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission.
Water cannon and more officers have been deployed to the venue after supporters marched through the town, saying that they want to protect their vote for Nelson Chamisa.
The announcements will come two days after Zimbabweans cast their ballots in the historic elections, the first without Robert Mugabe as president in almost four decades.
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission results showed President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Zanu-PF cruising to a big majority after picking up 109 seats against 41 for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change.
The ZEC’s Dr Qhubani Moyo says political parties must be patient and not announce results as they are not officials of the commission.
Zimbabweans cast their ballots on Monday and are now waiting to hear who will be their new president.
This is despite the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) indicating that it will begin announcing preliminary results on Tuesday afternoon.
The commission has confirmed it will start releasing preliminary results at 3 pm as and when they come in from various provinces.
The ZEC says that it will start announcing the official results from 3pm on Tuesday.
Over five million Zimbabwean voters registered, many of whom showed up and the process seemed fair. Now let the counting begin.
A frail 94-year-old Mugabe, accompanied by his wife, Grace, shuffled into the polling booth - and spent several minutes filling in his ballot paper with the help of an assistant.
There are 5 days to go to the Zimbabwe elections. This is the first election in which citizens will vote for a new president since Robert Mugabe was forced out last year.
The electoral commission chair, Priscilla Chigumba, has expressly denied having an affair with one of Zimbabwe’s 23 presidential candidates.
Civic groups and some election candidates have started to collect their copies of the voters’ roll for inspection.
The acting chief elections officer says that members of the public will be able to inspect the roll over 11 days from 19 to 29 May.