NATIONAL NEWS - The Zimbabwe Election Commission (ZEC) announced the results of who won Monday’s Zimbabwean presidential election at about 00.40 on Friday morning.
There were 23 presidential candidates in total. Only two received significant support.
Nelson Chamisa of the Movement for Democratic Change-Alliance received 2,147,436 votes, constituting 44.3% of the total.
Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zanu-PF received 2,460,463 votes, constituting 50.8% of the total.
ZEC chairperson Priscilla Chigumba announced that voter turnout had been high.
She expressed her regrets at the post-election violence, and urged her countrymen to take their place in the international community.
Momemts earlier, at about half past midnight, a representative from the MDC-Alliance had appeared to hijack the stage at the events centre in Harare and said they were rejecting the results because they had not been verified by party agents. He said the results were fake.
