Naturally, Mugabe's government has yet to release polling data. Vote rigging has increasingly been a complaint in recent Zimbabwe elections as the country has spiraled into runaway inflation and chaos. Will Mugabe step down if the results hold? That would be shocking.
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) defied a government ban on pre-empting the official announcement of the election results and released the count from polling stations that showed Tsvangirai beating the man who has ruled Zimbabwe for 28 years, even in the president's home territory of Mashonaland.
'We've won this election,' said Tendai Biti, the MDC's secretary-general. 'The results coming in show that in our traditional strongholds we are massacring them. In Mugabe's traditional strongholds they are doing very badly. There is no way Mugabe can claim victory unless it is through fraud. He has lost this election.'
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