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Zimbabwe opposition claims victory

AFP, Harare
Zimbabwe's opposition on Wednesday pre-empted the official results of the country’s general elections, declaring its leader Morgan Tsvangirai had delivered a knock-out blow to President Robert Mugabe.
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) secretary-general Tendai Biti told a press conference that Tsvangirai had won 50.2 percent of the votes in Saturday's presidential election against43.8 percent for Mugabe, and it had also beaten the ruling ZANU-PF party in a simultaneous parliamentary’ poll.
The announcement prompted an angry reaction from the government in Harare, with the information minister saving the party should have waited for the official electoral commission to make an announcement.
"He (Tsvangirai) is above the 50 percent threshold needed to avoid a run-off.' Biti told reporters in the capital Harare.
Put simply he has won this election ... Morgan Richard Tsvangirai is the next president of the Republic of Zimbabwe, without a run-off.'
Biti said the party believed that the government was trying to massage the results and pointed to a front-page story in Wednesday's Herald newspaper that said there was now likely to be a run-off as neither man had a clear majority.
"The state media has already begin to prepare the people for a run-off in 21 days ... If that is the position this party will contest the run-off, " he added.
Bib also said that, based on its own calculations, the MDC had won a total of 110 seats, including 11 lawmakers who are part of a splinter faction.
Mugabe's ZANU-PF party had won 96 out of the overall 210 seats, headded.
The party decided to release its own figures as the official electoral commission had so far failed to declare any results from the presidential election, which took place on Saturday.
The commission has also yet to declare the final outcome of the parliamentary election, which was held simultaneously.
In a press conference on Tuesday night, Tsvangirai had declined to proclaim himself the winner and said that he was prepared to wait for the commission to make an announcement.
Information Minister Ndlovu Sikhoanyiso slammed the MDC for jumping the gun.
"Why rush to announce the results before the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission finishes?" he told AFP.