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Zimbabwe ruling ZANU-PF: figure to lead unity govt must be Mugabe

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-07-25 22:07

Zimbabwean President and ruling ZANU-PF cadidate Mugabe won a landslide victory in the presidential run-off election on June 27. The Zimbabwe election committee said official results showed that Mugabe, 84, won 85.5 percent of the votes in the election against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's 9.3 percent, defeating Tsvangirai by a huge margin.

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Zimbabwe held the presidential run-off election as scheduled despite opposition MDC leader Tsvangirai's withdrawal from the race. Tsvangirai withdrew from the election citing various reasons, including political violence.

Tsvangirai received 47.9 percent of the votes in the first round of election held on March 29, followed by President Robert Mugabe's 43.2 percent.

An outright winner needs to obtain an absolute majority of the votes, otherwise a run-off needs to be held, according to Zimbabwe's law.

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