Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU PF party has lost the majority of votes in the 2008 Parliamentary elections, as the nation now awaits the results of the Presidential poll, The Zimbabwe Gazette can reveal.

MDC Supporters

Many people in the capital, Harare are already in a jovial mood, and have resorted to all kinds of celebrations.

Statistics now indicate in the tightly contested elections, especially in the form of ZANU PF/ MDC, there are 11 seats left (to go), and through whatever means, ZANU PF will not get the majority of seats.

Close sources hint of the 11 seats left, 3 will not be counted as there will By-elections conducted in the respective Constituencies- in which 3 contestants passed away in the run-up to the elections.

“So, this means 8 seats are left. Even if ZANU PF gets all the eight- added to the confirmed 94 seats totals 102 seats.”

The MDC currently says its President Morgan Tsvangirai has won the Presidential race, in an election which has seen the MDC winning in most rural constituencies.

The party however missed its predicted seats by 3 seats, getting 96 from the forecasted 99 seats.

The party has earlier this week suggested it had won all 12 House of Assembly seats and four out of five Senatorial seats in Bulawayo, 28 out of the 29 seats in Harare and the majority of the seats in Manicaland, Masvingo and the Midlands provinces.

“President Tsvangirai garnered 1 169 860 votes, Robert Mugabe 1 043 451 and Simba Makoni 169 636. President Tsvangirai has 50,3 percent of the total Presidential vote and he has won the election with no need for a run-off,” said the MDC secretary general, Tendai Biti.

“The MDC President has won even in those few constituencies where MDC parliamentary candidates narrowly lost to ZANU PF candidates in an election marred by serious irregularities,” adds Biti.

However, the ZANU PF party, and the ZEC have strongly dismissed the claims insisting the MDC should wait for the official outcome of the poll from ZEC.

Biti announced Tsvangirai had won the Presidential vote and there was no need for a rerun because he had more than 50 percent of the total vote. On Wednesday this week, the state-run newspaper, The Herald published a front page article suggesting due to the tightly contested poll, Mugabe and Tsvangirai are likely to go for a re-run.

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