The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) announced the last three outstanding National Assembly election results this morning, with Zanu PF’s Tongai Mnangagwa winning in Harare South, to take the ruling party’s parliamentary tally to 145 out of 210 seats.
Vimbayi Java Tsvangirai, the daughter of the late former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, and Susan Matsunga won for the MDC Alliance in Glenview South and Mufakose to take their tally to 63.
The MDC Alliance fielded two candidates in Harare South and that backfired as votes were split.
The winning candidate, Mnangagwa polled 24503 votes, MDC Alliance’s Shadreck Mashayamombe 21363 and Tichaona Saurombe of the same party 7868 votes.
Meanwhile, ZEC has confirmed that results of the presidential election will be announced at anytime today when the collation and verification process is complete.
ZEC Spokesperson, Commissioner Qhubani Moyo told a media briefing in Harare that chief election agents of the candidates are currently verifying the V11 forms and once that legal requirement is complete, the results will be announced.
After the violence demonstrations in Harare yesterday which claimed the lives of six people, Zimbabweans are glued to the TV screens waiting to hear who their new democratic President is going to be. This has been dubbed as Zimbabwe’s historic poll.
Chief Justice Priscilla Chigumba announces the final presidential counts just after members of the MDC Alliance came to announce to the world that as the MDC Alliance they do not agree with the votes announced. The two MDC Alliance members were later removed but the new president of Zimbabwe is Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa with a total of 2 460 463 followed by Nelson Chamisa 2 147 436.
President Mnangagwa and Nelson Chamisa were the two main candidates of the Presidential election. MDC Alliance are not happy with results and will protest the outcome. President Mnangagwa has beed declared as the new Zimbabwe President as of the 3rd August 2018.
Source – News365coza
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