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Electoral officials, party officials and observers entering election command centre for verification talksHarare, Zimbabwe2. SOUNDBITE (English): Lovemore Sekeramayi, Chief Electoral Officer:\"I have in accordance in...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eHarare, Zimbabwe\u003cbr/\u003e1. Electoral officials, party officials and observers entering election command centre for verification talks\u003cbr/\u003eHarare, Zimbabwe\u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE (English): Lovemore Sekeramayi, Chief Electoral Officer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I have in accordance in with the electoral act, chapter 12 to 18 and the regulations made thereunder, ascertained the result of the poll for the said election and that they have been given to Tsvangirai Morgan, a candidate for the MDC (Movement for Democratic Change) Tsvangirai party, 1-million 195-thousand 562 votes, representing 47.9 percent of the valid votes cast. Mugabe, Robert Gabriel, a candidate for the ZANU-PF party, 1-million 79-thousand 730 votes representing 43.2 percent of the valid votes cast.\"\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of electoral officials at media briefing\u003cbr/\u003e4.  SOUNDBITE (English): Lovemore Sekeramayi, Chief Electoral Officer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Since no candidate has received a majority of the total number of valid votes cast, the provisions of section 110, subsection 3 of the electoral act, chapter 213 do apply and a second election shall be held on a date to be advised by the Commission.\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE (English): Nelson Chamisa, Movement for Democratic Change Spokesman: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Clearly ZEC (Zimbabwe Electoral Commission) has behaved in a scandalous manner, in a criminal way and we believe that what they have done does not fit the test of democracy.\"\u003cbr/\u003eHarare, Zimbabwe\u003cbr/\u003e6. Newspaper with headline reading: (English) \"Presidential results: Verification begins\"\u003cbr/\u003eHarare, Zimbabwe\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (English): Nelson Chamisa, Movement for Democratic Change Spokesman: \u003cbr/\u003e\"ZEC clearly and categorically stated that all parties that are contesting are supposed to validate the result and sign the result before it is announced. They jumped the gun. They refused to have the verification process undertaken because they have a lot to hide.\"\u003cbr/\u003eHarare, Zimbabwe\u003cbr/\u003e8. Cris Mbanga, Chief Election Agent of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, arriving at election command centre \u003cbr/\u003eHarare, Zimbabwe\u003cbr/\u003e9.  SOUNDBITE (English): Nelson Chamisa, Movement for Democratic Change Spokesman: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Well the clear plan of action is that we have won this election outright. President Tsvangirai should go ahead to form the next government. Mugabe should concede defeat. He got 43 percent by our figures, even by the cooked figures of ZEC, they could not have cooked the figures any further but clearly Mugabe has lost.\"\u003cbr/\u003eWashington DC, US\u003cbr/\u003e10. State Department spokesman Tom Casey entering media briefing\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (English): Tom Casey, US State Department spokesman\u003cbr/\u003e\"Yes we've seen the reports and know that the National Electoral Commission has finally put forward results. This isn't a case of better late than never though. That final tally, I think, has rather serious credibility problems.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. Reporter asking question\u003cbr/\u003eWashington DC, US\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (English): Tom Casey, US State Department spokesman\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's really impossible as a practical matter right now to think about how Zimbabwe could hold a run-off election in a situation when, what everyone admits by any measure, was the leading vote getter is having his party and his supporters regularly harassed and subject to abuse by government officials. So before anything else happens here, the first thing that ought to happen is that the government needs to cease its repression of the opposition.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Reporter\u003cbr/\u003eZimbabwe's opposition has proposed sharing power with President Robert Mugabe's ruling party, but not with Mugabe, after the Electoral Commission's tally of presidential results gave its candidate the lead, but not enough votes to avoid a run-off.\u003cbr/\u003eOpposition officials dismissed the figures by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) released earlier on Friday that put opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai ahead of Mugabe but short of an outright victory.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Electoral Commission on Friday released the long-delayed results from Zimbabwe's March 29 presidential vote, saying Mugabe won 43.2 percent of votes to Tsvangirai's 47.9 percent, requiring a second-round vote.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Since no candidate has received a majority of the total number of valid votes cast, the provisions of section 110, subsection 3 of the electoral act, chapter 213 do apply and a second election shall be held on a date to be advised by the Commission,\" Chief Electoral Officer Lovemore Sekeramayi announced.\u003cbr/\u003eTsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change immediately challenged the results, saying the Electoral Commission ignored its objections and concerns about the vote count. \u003cbr/\u003eSpokesman Nelson Chamisa told AP Television that ZEC had \"behaved in a scandalous manner, in a criminal way\".\u003cbr/\u003e\"We have won this election outright. President Tsvangirai should go ahead to form the next government. Mugabe should concede defeat. He got 43 percent by our figures, even by the cooked figures of ZEC, they could not have cooked the figures any further but clearly Mugabe has lost,\" said Chamisa.\u003cbr/\u003eSpeaking from Johannesburg, opposition leader Tendai Biti said that the only way to resolve the impasse was with a \"government of national healing.\"\u003cbr/\u003eTsvangirai - who has maintained that he won the presidency with more than 50 percent of the vote - said previously that he will not participate in any run-off. \u003cbr/\u003eAnother MDC spokesperson said the party anticipated needing another three or four days to examine the results presented to the MDC and the ruling ZANU-PF as part of the verification process.\u003cbr/\u003eMeanwhile the US State Department expressed doubt over Friday's developments.\u003cbr/\u003e\"This isn't a case of better late than never though. That final tally, I think, has rather serious credibility problems,\" said spokesman Tom Casey.\u003cbr/\u003eOpposition and rights groups have accused Mugabe of withholding the results to buy time to steal a run-off through intimidation or fraud.\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's really impossible as a practical matter right now to think about how Zimbabwe could hold a runoff election in a situation when, what everyone admits by any measure, was, the leading vote getter was having his party and his supporters regularly harassed and subject to abuse by government officials,\" Casey told reporters.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Before anything else happens here, the first thing that ought to happen is that the government needs to cease it's repression of the opposition.\"\u003cbr/\u003eIndependent observers also have been saying that Tsvangirai won the most votes, but not the 50 percent plus one vote needed to avoid a run-off.\u003cbr/\u003eDeputy Information Minister Bright Matonga said the constitution required a second round be held no sooner than 21 days from the announcement of the results, but that the electoral commission could take up to a year if officials believed that was necessary.\u003cbr/\u003eMugabe has pledged to accept the verdict of any run-off vote and called on the opposition to do the same, Senegalese officials said on Thursday.\u003cbr/\u003eSenegal's foreign minister was in Zimbabwe this week to help mediate the country's growing political crisis.\u003cbr/\u003eThe opposition has said a government and ruling party campaign of intimidation and violence since the first round of voting has left the movement in disarray, with its main leaders staying out of the country for fear of arrest.\u003cbr/\u003eIndependent rights groups say post-election violence makes it unlikely a run-off could be free and fair.\u003cbr/\u003eEighty-four-year-old Mugabe has been in power since Zimbabwe gained independence from Britain in 1980. \u003cbr/\u003eHe has been accused of brutality and 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