Abstract
On Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 June, Zimbabweans voted in the country's most fiercely fought parliamentary elections since independence in 1980. President Robert Mugabe's ruling party, ZANU‐PF, was competing for a fifth term in office against the Movement for Democratic Change, which was formed last year. More than 30 people were killed in the three months before polling, nearly all of them opposition officials or sympathisers. In the majority of cases, the police failed to act. Three hundred foreign observers and thousands of local monitors watched the polling and the counting for signs of irregularities. As for international journalists: the place was swarming with them. This was the smart place to be...
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