THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission will, within 48 hours from yesterday, announce the date of the presidential election run-off, commission chairperson Justice George Chiweshe has said.
In an interview yesterday, Justice Chiweshe said the commission was fully aware that the nation was keenly awaiting the announcement of the date.
election, so we need more time to prepare for the run-off," he said.

Harare/Johannesburg - Zimbabwe's presidential run-off election between President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will take place on June 27, Zimbabwe Electoral Commission head George Chiweshe told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa Friday.
The date was also contained in a government gazette that appeared Friday.
window for a second round to 90 days from the results on May 2.

By Cris Chinaka HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean security chiefs have urged church leaders to help stop rising violence ahead of a delayed run-off election in which the opposition hopes to oust President Robert Mugabe.
Official results showed opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai beat Mugabe in the disputed March 29 poll, but not by enough votes to avoid a run-off. The electoral commission is due to set a date for the second round on Friday.
from violence," the daily Herald said on Friday.

By Tawanda Jonas, on May 16 2008 02:38 The Movement for Democratic Change, Zimbabwe’s main opposition party lead by Morgan Tsvangirai, has rejected and

HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwe's opposition reacted furiously on Thursday to the prospect of a run-off poll being delayed until the end of July, accusing authorities of flouting the law to help Robert Mugabe cling to power.
As the government confirmed the second round of a presidential election would not take place next week as scheduled, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) feared the delay would be used to intensify a campaign of violence and intimidation after Mugabe's first round defeat.
ding to an extraordinary government gazette due to be published Thursday but read out to AFP by a source close to the printers, the period has been extended from 21 days to 90 days.

Elections authorities in Zimbabwe Thursday announced a 90-day delay in a crunch presidential run-off, immediately triggering protests from the opposition.
But the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), in a notice in a special government gazette, did not give reasons for the delay in holding the run-off.
(Chapter 2:13), following upon the poll taken on 29th March, 2008 in each constituency for the election of a President which resulted in no candidate receiving a majority of the total votes cast, the period within which a second election to the office of President is to be held is hereby extended from 21 days to ninety (90) from the date of the announcement of the results of the first poll of the election of a President," ZEC said.

Harare The run-off in Zimbabwe’s presidential election due this month was put off yesterday until as late as July, prompting the opposition to accuse President Mugabe of trying to buy time for a crackdown.
The country went to the polls on March 29 but results of the disputed vote were not released until May 2. They showed that Morgan Tsvangirai, the opposition leader, beat Mr Mugabe but did not have enough votes to avoid a run-off that should have been held within 21 days of the results.
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Pursuant to the announcement of the presidential election in which no candidate had secured a majority of the total votes cast there will be a run-off election. The date of this election is still to be announced by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC). The two candidates eligible for the run-off election are Morgan Tsvangirai and Robert Mugabe.
The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN), a coalition of 38 non-governmental organizations, accredited as domestic election observers in the 2008 Harmonised Election calls for conditions conducive for ensuring that the run-off of the presidential election represents the expression of the will of the people of Zimbabwe. The

Zimbabwe's government has extended the deadline by which the presidential run-off vote must be held to 31 July.
The main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said the decision was illegal and unfair.
Tsvangirai said he would take part.

By Carole Gombakomba The Zimbabwean government said Wednesday that it has extended the deadline for holding a presidential runoff election to 90 days from

Voters in Zimbabwe face a much longer wait for a say in the run-off presidential election.
The government yesterday changed the law which says the poll must be held within 21 days of the first official results being announced.
part of a programme to give Mugabe and ZANU-PF time to torment and continue a campaign of violence."

Zimbabwe Today report that they have advance notice that the election run-off date will be announced tomorrow, and that it will be “90 days after May 2, the date of the official announcement of the disputed results”.
Ahead of announcements expected in Zimbabwe’s state-run media tomorrow, I can reveal that the date of the much-anticipated Presidential election run-off will be 90 days after May 2, the date of the official announcement of the disputed results.
hen referring to the previous one. All website comments should do as happened for Morgan - who now is widely referred to quite correctly as “President Tsvangarai” - by refering to the “previous regime” because it NO LONGER IS THE DAMN government.

The second round of Zimbabwe's presidential election will be delayed yet again, raising new questions over whether the opposition will take part.
The chairman of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), Justice George Chiweshe, told the state-run Sunday Mail newspaper at the weekend that the law requiring a second round to be held within 21 days of the announcement of the results of the first round was unrealistic.
that the election commission needed more money from the state to organise another round.

Harare - The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) says the presidential run-off vote could take place soon, possibly before May 23.
ZEC Deputy Chief of Operations Utoile Silaigwana on Sunday said the Electoral Act allowed the run-off to be held within 21 days if candidates failed to get 50 percent of votes.
off could be held.

Zimbabwe's top electoral official has told a state newspaper that it is likely the country's presidential run-off poll will be delayed.
Zimbabwe Electoral Commission chairman George Chiweshe has told the Sunday Mail that it is very likely the cut-off period for elections will be extended.
the time limit set out in Zimbabwean law risked rendering the election process illegitimate.