BBC (Friday April 1): Mugabe's party sweeps to victory

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From the BBC Online
Dated Friday April 1

Mugabe's party sweeps to victory

President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party has swept to victory in Zimbabwe's parliamentary elections.

So far the party has taken 62 of 120 contested seats, official results show - enough to guarantee Mr Mugabe's party control of the legislature.

The opposition, which has 35 seats so far, said "disgusting, massive fraud" had been committed in Thursday's polls.

Jonathan Moyo, recently sacked as information minister, won a surprise seat as an independent.

Mugabe's methods may be more primitive than Bush's, but he gets more bang for his buck.