{"id":8338,"date":"2013-08-02T06:56:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T06:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8338"},"modified":"2013-08-02T06:56:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T06:56:41","slug":"early-results-show-mugabes-zanu-pf-in-the-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8338","title":{"rendered":"Early results show Mugabe&#8217;s Zanu-PF in the lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bobm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8339\" alt=\"bobm\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bobm.jpg\" width=\"221\" height=\"228\" \/><\/a>The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has begun announcing official results of Wednesday\u2019s national elections.<\/p>\n<section class=\"content_blurb\"><\/section>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The results announced on Thursday confirm earlier reports that Zanu-PF leader Robert\u00a0Mugabe is headed for a big win,\u00a0while his Zanu-PF party is set to claim a majority in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ZEC\u00a0deputy chairperson Joyce Kazembe released results of 31 constituencies in Bulawayo, Masvingo and Mashonaland West provinces, of which\u00a0Zanu-PF claimed 28 of the seats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kazembe released results for 18 constituencies in Masvingo, all of which went to Zanu-PF.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eight of the seats were won by MDC-T in 2008.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zanu-PF officials and officials from the MDC formations say Zanu PF was likely to take all 26 seats in the province.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kazembe also released results of 11 constituencies in Mashonaland West.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ten of the constituencies were won by Zanu-PF,\u00a0with MDC-T claiming the Chinhoyi Central seat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MDC-T won the Pelandaba-Mpopoma and Nkulumane seats in Bulawayo and pointers were that the party would claim the 12 seats in the province.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Returns from polling stations indicated MDC-T would win less than 50 of the 210 contested seats in the House of Assembly, giving Zanu-PF the two-thirds majority it needs to change laws in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The presidential election is also not likely to go to a runoff, as Mugabe is likely to garner the 50%\u00a0plus one vote necessary for him\u00a0to be sworn in as president\u00a0without a second round. &#8211; mg.co.za<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has begun announcing official results of Wednesday\u2019s national elections. The results announced on Thursday confirm earlier reports that Zanu-PF leader Robert\u00a0Mugabe is headed for a big win,\u00a0while his Zanu-PF party is set to claim a majority in Parliament. ZEC\u00a0deputy chairperson Joyce Kazembe released results of 31 constituencies in Bulawayo, Masvingo and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8338\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Early results show Mugabe&#8217;s Zanu-PF in the lead&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1250,179,181,180,4634],"class_list":["post-8338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-mdc","tag-robert-mugabe","tag-zanu-pf","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-electoral-commission"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bobm.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8340,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8338\/revisions\/8340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}