Zambia: President Edgar Lungu elected in disputed vote
Zambia's opposition party rejects result of the election, claiming the electoral commission colluded to rig the vote.
Lungu, leader of the Patriotic Front (PF), won 50.35 percent of the vote against 47.67 percent for Hichilema of the United Party for National Development (UPND), the commission said on Monday.
The opposition party quickly rejected the result, claiming the electoral commission had colluded to rig the vote against its candidate.
"We have evidence to the effect that the votes for Hakainde Hichilema have been deliberately reduced in collusion with the Electoral Commission of Zambia," the UPND's lawyer Jack Mwiimbu told journalists, according to the Reuters news agency.
"We have confidence that the constitutional court will rise above board and declare the results a nullity," he said.
Lungu has been in office for just 19 months after he first took power last year when he beat Hichilema by less than 28,000 votes in a snap election following the death in office of president Michael Sata.
Lungu was re-elected to a full five-year term.
This is dummy text. It is not meant to be read. Accordingly, it is difficult to figure out when to end it. But then, this is dummy text. It is not meant to be read. Period.
ConversionConversion EmoticonEmoticon