Zimbabwe: Second-Round Ballot Looks Increasingly Likely

Harare — Zimbabwe looks as if it is heading for a run-off presidential election between the incumbent Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, despite claims by the latter that he has won.

According to two sources – a senior politburo member in the ruling ZANU-PF party and an insider in the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, ZEC – neither of the main candidates has surpassed the required 50 per cent of the vote.

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