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| Zimbabwe announces poll results | Zimbabwe announces poll results |
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| The long-awaited results of Zimbabwe's presidential poll have been announced, with the opposition's Morgan Tsvangirai winning 47.9%, forcing a second round. | |
| Election officials say Mr Tsvangirai beat President Robert Mugabe's 43.2%, but both candidates fell short of the 50% needed for an outright win. | |
| Mr Tsvangirai's party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), earlier said it would reject the official results. | |
| The MDC accuses Mugabe supporters of rigging the vote and of intimidation. | The MDC accuses Mugabe supporters of rigging the vote and of intimidation. |
| Court bid | |
| The Secretary General of the MDC, Tendai Biti, has told the BBC that the process to verify the Zimbabwean electoral result was "aborted prematurely" as the MDC was trying to "expose fraud". | |
| He said that Mr Tsvangirai had "won this election without the need for a run-off". | |
| Mr Biti said the party would go to court to try to declare Mr Tsvangirai the next President of Zimbabwe on the basis that he won more votes than Robert Mugabe. | |
| The country has been waiting for the presidential results since the 29 March elections. |