The Opposition In Zimbabwe Declares Triumph and Challenges The President’s Re-election.

Nelson Chamisa, the head of Zimbabwe’s opposition, challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s official reelection on Sunday and declared victory in a poll that international observers deemed to have fallen short of democratic standards.

According to official results released late Saturday by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), Mnangagwa, 80, won a second term with 52.6 percent of the vote over his major rival Chamisa, 45, who received 44 percent.

The findings were rejected by the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), who claimed they were “false”.

“This election is ours to keep. We are in charge. At a press conference in the nation’s capital, Harare, lawyer and pastor Chamisa said, “We are even puzzled why Mnangagwa has been labelled a leader.

On Wednesday and Thursday, Zimbabweans went to the polls to elect a new president and a new parliament. The voting process was hampered by delays, which led the opposition to charge that there had been voter suppression and vote manipulation.

We were aware that the election had problems. Both the delimitation report and the voter list are flawed. Our ballot was unreliable. It was an unfavourable electoral climate, Chamisa claimed.

Mnangagwa demanded that anyone who opposed his reelection go to court earlier that day at the presidential palace.

He remarked, “Those who feel the race wasn’t run fairly should know where to go.”