INCUMBENT president Joaquim Chissano was ahead in Mozambican polls, with 52.22% votes against 47.78% for his rival Afonso Dhlakama, officials said Friday, with more than half the ballots counted. In concurrent general elections, the governing Mozambique Liberation Front had won 48.88% against 38.38% for the former rebel Mozambique National Resistance movement, Julio Bika, spokesman for the National Elections Commission, said on Friday. Chissano and Dhlakama had been reported to be running neck and neck. During the southern African country’s first democratic elections in 1994, Chissano obtained 53.3% of presidential ballots against Dhlakama’s 33.7%, while Frelimo got 44.3% percent against 37.7 percent to Renamo, but observers had considered that this year Dhlakama’s ex-guerrillas and their opposition allies could take a parliamentary majority. The National Elections Commission is expected to announce the final national results by Sunday or Monday.