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| Zim poll results 'lack credibility': Britain | |
| 2008-05-03 | |
| LONDON - Zimbabwe's presidential poll results announced Friday "lack credibility," Britain's Foreign Office said, adding that a second round could not be fair unless more international monitors were present. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was finally declared the winner of the March 29 vote but fell just short of toppling incumbent Robert Mugabe. "The election results released five weeks after polling day lack credibility but it's clear that at least 60 percent of the population voted for change in Zimbabwe," a Foreign Office spokeswoman told AFP. "President Mugabe's campaign of violence and intimidation, coupled with the arrest of 99 electoral commission officials in the last month, show exactly how (his ruling party) ZANU-PF would approach any second round. "Without an immediate end to violence and the introduction of a wider range of international monitors and in much greater numbers than were present for the first, no second round could be free and fair."
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| Posted by:Steve White |