{"id":7831,"date":"2013-08-06T08:40:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T08:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigerian-newspapers\/zimbabwes-opposition-to-contest-poll-results-in-court\/"},"modified":"2013-08-06T08:40:26","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T08:40:26","slug":"zimbabwes-opposition-to-contest-poll-results-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/zimbabwes-opposition-to-contest-poll-results-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe\u2019s opposition to contest poll results in court"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Zimbabwe\u2019s defeated presidential candidate Morgan Tsvangirai has prepared to mount a legal and political challenge against the \u201csham\u201d election that may extend Robert Mugabe\u2019s 33-year rule, Al-Jazeera has reported.<\/p>\n

Tsvangirai\u2019s allies announced yesterday that they will launch a constitutional court challenge against the results of Wednesday\u2019s election, which handed Mugabe 61 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur lawyers are very busy at work. We will be lodging the presidential challenge before Friday,\u201d Douglas Mwonzora, spokesman for Tsvangirai\u2019s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), told a news agency.<\/p>\n

Our lawyers are very busy at work. We will be lodging the presidential challenge before Friday. The case could delay 89-yearold Mugabe\u2019s inauguration for another five-year term.<\/p>\n

The MDC had support from the US and European nations condemning the election, and Australia even calling for a rerun. The regional Southern African Development Community (SADC) bloc said it was \u201cfree and peaceful\u201d but stopped short of describing it as fair.<\/p>\n

The ruling ZANU-PF has welcomed the prospect of a court challenge over the vote – the first since bloody 2008 elections led to the formation of an uneasy power-sharing pact between Mugabe and Tsvangirai. \u201cWhat they are doing is a good thing, it\u2019s a wise road to take,\u201d ZANU-PF spokesman Rugare Gumbo said, expressing confidence the challenge would fail.<\/p>\n

Mwonzora said the MDC was preparing a \u201cdossier of all the rigging that took place and we will put it in the public domain to show the people how the election was stolen\u201d. The MDC has called for an emergency summit of SADC after the group gave the vote a thumbs-up, but deferred on calling the election \u201cfair\u201d.<\/p>\n

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