{"id":52374,"date":"2018-08-03T02:31:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T00:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/08\/03\/zimbabwe-election-mnangagwa-narrowly-wins-historic-presidential-poll\/"},"modified":"2018-08-03T02:31:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T00:31:51","slug":"zimbabwe-election-mnangagwa-narrowly-wins-historic-presidential-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=52374","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe election: Mnangagwa narrowly wins historic presidential poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zanu-PF leader took 50.8% of the vote, says electoral commission chair, who urges country to \u2018move on\u2019 Emmerson Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe\u2019s president and the leader of the ruling Zanu-PF party, has won the country\u2019s historic and hotly contested presidential election.Officials from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) announced early on Friday that Mnangagwa had received 2.46m votes or 50.8% of the 4.8m votes cast. Nelson Chamisa, the candidate of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), won 2.14m votes and 44.3% of the overall, the ZEC said. Mnangagwa needed to win by more than 50% to avoid a run-off vote. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/aug\/02\/mnangagwas-zanu-pf-on-track-to-pull-off-narrow-win-in-zimbabwe-election\" target=\"_blank\">Zimbabwe election: Mnangagwa narrowly wins historic presidential poll<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zanu-PF leader took 50.8% of the vote, says electoral commission chair, who urges country to \u2018move on\u2019 Emmerson Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe\u2019s president and the leader of the ruling Zanu-PF party, has won the country\u2019s historic and hotly contested presidential election.Officials from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) announced early on Friday that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}