There was still no official results Tuesday from the weekend's presidential vote in Zimbabwe, but an election monitoring group projected that opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai was leading President Robert Mugabe. Tensions are high in the southern African state that has never seen a transition of power since Mugabe led the country to independence in 1980.The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission's delay in releasing the presidential count raised suspicions that Mugabe's government was buying time to rig the results, something many believe was done in 2002, when Mugabe last faced Tsvangirai.
"The people of Zimbabwe will not allow such a thing to happen," said Thoko Khupe, vice president of Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Party. "They are not going to accept that. They now know that they won this election."
The long delay in results has left Zimbabweans desperate for information.
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