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Zimbabwe’s President Mnangagwa Wins Re-election

Mnangagwa’s main challenger and opposition Citizens for Coalition Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa, secured 1,967,343 votes or 44 per cent of the valid votes cast, Chigumba said…reports Asian Lite News

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been re-elected after securing 2.6 per cent of the total votes cast in the August 23-24 elections, country’s poll body announced.

As per Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) chairperson Priscilla Chigumba, Mnangagwa beat 10 other presidential contestants after polling 2,350,711 votes, Xinhua news agency reported.

Mnangagwa’s main challenger and opposition Citizens for Coalition Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa, secured 1,967,343 votes or 44 per cent of the valid votes cast, Chigumba said.

“Mnangagwa Emmerson Dambudzo of ZANU-PF party is declared duly elected president of the Republic of Zimbabwe with effect from August 26, 2023,” Chigumba said.

According to the ZEC, Mnangagwa’s ruling ZANU-PF party has won the majority of the 210 parliamentary seats.

Zimbabweans voted on Wednesday and Thursday, with a voter turnout of 68.9 percent, to choose a new president, members of parliament and representatives of local governments.

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Pelosi announces reelection bid amid retirement buzz

This election is crucial. Nothing less is at stake than our democracy,” Pelosi said on Tuesday in an announcement video posted on Twitter…reports Asian Lite News

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, has announced that she would run for reelection in this year’s midterm elections.

While we have made progress much more needs to be done to improve people’s lives. This election is crucial: nothing less is at stake than our Democracy.

But we don’t agonize-we organize. I am running for re-election to Congress to deliver For The People and defend Democracy. -NP pic.twitter.com/ojwFPOdRs3
— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) January 25, 2022

“While we’ve made progress, much more needs to be done to improve people’s lives. Our democracy is at risk because the assault on the truth, assault on the US Capitol and the state-by-state assault on voting rights. This election is crucial. Nothing less is at stake than our democracy,” Pelosi said on Tuesday in an announcement video posted on Twitter.

“But as we say, we don’t agonise, we organise, and that is why I am running for reelection to Congress and respectfully seek your support. I would be greatly honoured by it and grateful for it,” she added.

The Speaker, however, did not mention whether she would seek House Democratic leadership in the upcoming elections slated for November, Xinhua news agency reported.

Pelosi, who will turn 82 in March, has served as a US representative from California since 1987. She said in 2018 that the current term would be her last as House Speaker.

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