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NAN reports that President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party appeared confident of a sweeping victory, going by remarks from the party’s spokesman while the opposition leader of the rival Movement for Democratic Change, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, on Thursday described the election a “sham”, stressing that results would plunge the country into further crisis

The statement said the short-term observers would be supported by team of nine coordinating and technical team from the commission’s Democracy and Electoral Assistance Unit, the Pan-African Parliament and the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa