{"id":41199,"date":"2013-08-02T14:04:57","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T11:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=41199"},"modified":"2013-08-02T14:04:57","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T11:04:57","slug":"zimbabwe-election-african-union-praises-poll-despite-accusation-by-opposition-breaking-news-41199","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/zimbabwe-election-african-union-praises-poll-despite-accusation-by-opposition-breaking-news-41199\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Election: African Union Praises Poll despite Accusation by Opposition \/ Breaking News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Zimbabwe-Elections.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41210\" title=\"Zimbabwe-Elections-2013\" alt=\"Election campaign posters are pictured near Zimbabweans walking on a street blocked by uncollected garbage in Harare\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Zimbabwe-Elections.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Zimbabwe-Elections.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Zimbabwe-Elections-280x157.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>The African Union observer mission in the Zimbabwean election has stated that the presidential and parliamentary elections held on Wednesday were free, honest and credible.<\/h1>\n<p>Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) described the election as a &#8220;huge farce&#8221;, alleging widespread of irregularities and vote rigging.<\/p>\n<p>But the African Union Observer Mission head, Olusegun Obasanjo said the incidents reported during Wednesday&#8217;s poll could not &#8220;change the outcome&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>First official results from the Parliamentary elections show that Mr. Mugabe&#8217;s Zanu-PF party has taken an early lead and the party is claiming victory.<\/p>\n<p>An anonymous senior figure in the Zanu-PF party reportedly told the Reuters News Agency that the Zanu-PF party had won the election and that they are only waiting for the full count of the poll as the constitution mandates the Electoral Commission.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve taken this election. We&#8217;ve buried the MDC. We never had any doubt that we were going to win,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Police have won that they will deal with anyone who tries to make public declaration or leak early results of the election.<\/p>\n<p>The Electoral Commission has five days before announcing the results and many analysts say the election might prove to be the best since independence of Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p><b>Issaka Adams \/ NationalTurk Africa News<\/b><\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 14)<\/span>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The African Union observer mission in the Zimbabwean election has stated that the presidential and parliamentary elections held on Wednesday were free, honest and credible.<br \/>\nPrime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) described the election as a &#8220;huge farce&#8221;, alleging widespread of irregularities and vote rigging.<br \/>\nBut the African Union Observer Mission head, Olusegun Obasanjo said the incidents reported during Wednesday&#8217;s poll could not &#8220;change the outcome&#8221;.<br \/>\nFirst official results from the Parliamentary elections show that Mr. Mugabe&#8217;s Zanu-PF party has taken an early lead and the party is claiming victory.<br \/>\nAn anonymous senior figure in the Zanu-PF party reportedly told the Reuters News Agency that the Zanu-PF party had won the election and that they are only waiting for the full count of the poll as the constitution mandates the Electoral Commission.<br \/>\n&#8220;We&#8217;ve taken this election. We&#8217;ve buried the MDC. We never had any doubt that we were going to win,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nThe Police have won that they will deal with anyone who tries to make public declaration or leak early results of the election.<br \/>\nThe Electoral Commission has five days before announcing the results and many analysts say the election might prove to be the best since independence of Zimbabwe.<br \/>\nIssaka Adams \/ NationalTurk Africa News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,80,63,1,118,101,14],"tags":[56046,11084,56634,77166,23690,56633,9536],"class_list":["post-41199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-politics","category-world","tag-africa-democracy","tag-african-union","tag-african-union-observer-zimbabwean-elections","tag-breaking-news","tag-robert-mugabe","tag-zimbabawe-election","tag-zimbabwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}