BBC News with Nick Kelly.
The electoral commission in Zimbabwe has declared that president Robert Mugabe has won a seventh term in office. Mr. Mugabe who is 89 years old won 61% of the vote. His main rival Morgan Tsvangirai won nearly 34%. Mr. Tsvangirai says he will go to court to contest the results. Andrew Harding reports.
The official results show president Mugabe won 61% of the vote. It’s a crushing victory that he and his supporters say is a vindication of their aggressive campaign to take back control of Zimbabwe’s economy and land. Mr. Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party has also won more than 2/3 of the seats in parliament. But the man who is now lost three elections in a row said the country was in mourning and in crisis. Morgan Tsvangirai said he would demand a forensic order of the entire process to reveal how the election was stolen. But although regional observers have expressed grave concerns about the election they seem in no mood to question the outcome.
The American Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States did not believe the results announced today represented a credible expression of the will of the Zimbabwean people. The British foreign secretary William Hague said the British government had concerns over reports of large numbers of voters being turned away from polling stations and the high number of extra ballot papers that were printed.
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