Despite claims from the opposition party that they won 50.3% of the vote from the weekend’s presidential election, Zimbabwe’s state-run newspaper claimed today that no one had reached 50% and that a runoff election between the 28-year incumbent Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was likely. The International Herald Tribune reports that a runoff is just one of the many options Mugabe’s government considered when faced with their electoral defeat: A Zimbabwean businessman with close links to the governing party, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the nation’s military …
