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Zimbabwe
Election
·
On April 2,
2008
President
Robert
Mugabe's
Zanu-PF
party lost
its majority
in
parliament
·
Zanu-PF
party has
taken 94 of
the 207
contested
seats, while
opposition
parties have
won 105. One
seat has
gone to an
independent.
·
Opposition
MDC’s leader
Morgan
Tsvangirai
had won the
presidential
election.
·
Zimbabweans
voted on 29
March for
elections,
with
incumbent
Robert
Mugabe - in
power for 28
years -
seeking
another term
as
president. .
·
Under
Zimbabwean
law,
when several
candidates
contest the
presidency
the winning
candidate
must receive
more than
50% of the
vote,
otherwise a
second round
between the
two leading
candidates
must be held
within 21
days.
·
Some 5.9m
registered
voters were
also voting
to elect 210
MPs, 60
Senators and
about 1,600
local
council
officials.
·
President
Robert
Mugabe has
ruled
Zimbabwe
since 1980,
first as
prime
minister and
later as
executive
president.
·
He formed
the
governing
Zanu-PF in
1963 and led
a war
against the
white
minority
government
of Ian Smith
in the then
Southern
Rhodesia,
for which he
is still
admired by
his African
counterparts
and
supported by
Zimbabwe's
war
veterans.
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