ZIMBABWE OPPOSITION CONTESTS POLL RESULTS

ZIMBABWE opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said it would contest results in up to 40 of the 62 seats won by President Robert Mugabe’s ruling party in last month’s election. ”We had filed papers contesting the results in 37 constituencies and our lawyers are looking at a couple of more cases. We could end up with more than 40 appeals in the High Court,” MDC spokesperson Learnmore Jongwe said. The MDC says it could have easily won the poll if ZANU-PF supporters and independence war veterans had not waged a violent campaign that had claimed 31 lives before the June 24-25 elections. – Reuters

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