By IRNA,
Pretoria : Zimbabweans will return to the polls on June 27 to vote in a crucial run-off election which will determine whether Robert Mugabe maintains his 28 year grip on power.
The date was announced by Zimbabwe’s Electoral Commission as Mugabe admitted for the first time that the first round of voting on March 29th had been a disaster for his ruling party.
“Although the presidential result did not yield an outright winner, it was indeed disastrous,” he told a meeting of Zanu PF in Harare.
But he said the party would not lose power to an opposition backed by “a hostile axis of powerful governments”.
The official results showed that Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, defeated the 84 year old liberation leader, but not by a big enough margin to avoid a run-off.