The country’s electoral commission declared incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa the winner of a vote observers said fell short of international standards.
NAIROBI — Zimbabwe’s opposition on Sunday accused the ruling party of “blatant and gigantic fraud” after authorities declared the incumbent president the winner of last week’s election, despite allegations of voter intimidation and a crackdown on government critics.The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, whose members are chosen by the president, announced late Saturday that President Emmerson Mnangagwa had won a second five-year term with more than 52 percent of the vote.
But the opposition leader, who also ran for president in 2018, stopped short of pledging to formally contest the results. Under Zimbabwe’s constitution, candidates who want to challenge the final count need to file a petition with the constitutional court within seven days of the commission declaring a winner.Instead, Chamisa, who leads the Citizens Coalition for Change party, said that the party and its supporters “have a million tools at our disposal to achieve our end.
Late last year, the United States imposed sanctions on four people, including Mnangagwa’s son, for graft and undermining democracy in Zimbabwe. Mukupete said some Zimbabweans are starting to view Mugabe more favorably than the current president. “Even though they hated Mugabe in the last years of his rule, people are beginning to say he was much better than Mnangagwa, despite all his failures,” he said.for fostering a “climate of fear” around the election, including voter intimidation and the arrest of independent monitors ahead of the polls.
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