By Paul Nyathi|Losing MDC Alliance presidential candidate for the just ended national polls Nelson Chamisa has refused to accept the results of the election presented by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission.
In a Twitter message on Friday morning, Chamisa said that the figures presented by ZEC can not be accepted as they were not verified and agreed to by the participating political parties before being announced.
Chamisa claimed that the electoral body denied his party election agents access to the results before they were announced.
“The ZEC scandal of releasing unverified fake results is regrettable,” said Chamisa.
“ZEC denied our election agent access to results before announcement. ZEC must release proper and verified results endorsed by parties. The level of opaqueness, truth deficiency, moral decay & values deficit is baffling,”added Chamisa.
Chamisa lost the election to incumbent president Emmerson Mnangagwa of ZANU PF who got 50.8% of the votes while Chamisa got 44.3% in a closely contested poll.
Sources within the MDC told ZimEye.com that the party will be meeting in Harare on Friday to discuss a way forward after the disastrous election loss.
Despondent party supporters have been clashing with police and the army in the streets of Harare since Tuesday. The clashes have left six people dead following use of live ammunition by the army.