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Harare - A partial recount of ballots in Zimbabwe's presidential election should be completed by Monday after which the result will be announced, the head of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission said on Saturday.

"We trust that by Monday, April 28 this process will have been concluded... leading to the announcement of the result of the presidential election," ZEC chairperson George Chiweshe told reporters in Harare.

Chiweshe said the presidential candidates or their agents are expected to meet next week to compare results they will have gathered at each polling station.

"I don't know whether they are going to bring the same figures and everybody is going to agree from the word go, or whether they will (bring) various figures which need to be looked into and checked and argued about," Chiweshe said.

"But I can't say exactly when the results will be coming," he added.

Four weeks after the southern African country went to the polls, results of the presidential vote are still unknown.

Opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai says he won the race without need for a run-off, but the ruling Zanu-PF party of veteran leader Robert Mugabe said the election produced no outright winner.

Chiweshe dismissed claims that his agency is doctoring figures to rig the vote.

"Nothing could be further from the truth," he said.

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