'No evidence of fraud in poll'
05/04/2008 08:02  - (SA)  

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Freetown - The head of the African Union's observer delegation says there is no evidence of fraud in last week's tense presidential election in Zimbabwe.

Ahmed Tejan Kabbah told reporters upon returning from Zimbabwe that the observers found "no evidence in support of voting irregularities". Kabbah says that he knows Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe loves his country. He called him "a patriot".

Kabbah is a former president of Sierra Leone. He was asked to head the AU's observer delegation and spoke to reporters at the airport upon returning from his trip on Friday.

Meanwhile, Zimbabwe's opposition said the ruling party had the "democratic right" to contest election results after ZANU-PF announced plans to challenge its defeat in the parliamentary polls.

"It is their democratic right to do so. There is a procedure for any candidate to follow if they are not happy with any results," the Movement for Democratic Change's secretary for elections Ian Makone told AFP.

"The same applies to any candidate of any party."

Makone was reacting to an announcement by a senior member of Mugabe's ruling party that it intended to challenge the outcome in at least 16 seats that it lost in last Saturday's election.

The MDC wrested control of the 210-seat parliament from the Zimbabwe Africa National Union - Patriotic Front in the weekend elections, but a successful challenge in 16 or more seats would see it regain control.

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