{"id":196663,"date":"2008-04-03T05:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T10:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/03\/zimbabwe-updates-and-a-correction\/"},"modified":"2008-04-03T05:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T10:13:00","slug":"zimbabwe-updates-and-a-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/03\/zimbabwe-updates-and-a-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe, Updates and a Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/04\/03\/asia\/zimbabwe.php\">opposition won an absolute majority<\/a>, as I said yesterday.  It appears that the MDC Tsvangirai has 99 seats, MDC Mutambara (a sort of a splinter faction, but not fully a separate party) has 10, and Zanu-PF has 97, with one independent, out of 210 seats (3 seats had the winners die before the election and are empty).<\/p>\n<p>The entire MDC Tsvangirai\/MDC Mutambara has me confuse, but it <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">appears <\/span>that they are the same party, they just don&#8217;t get along, so they have an outright majority.<\/p>\n<p>There is also an upper house, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sokwanele.com\/thisiszimbabwe\/archives\/827\">results have been delayed<\/a>, but this is rather a more complex system than the Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Still no results in the presidential election, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-zimbabwe3apr03,1,7167912.story\">runnoff is expected<\/a>, along with a lot of unrest.<\/p>\n<p>The original calculation of 50.3% for Tsvangirai appears to have been a miscalculation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, the opposition won an absolute majority, as I said yesterday. It appears that the MDC Tsvangirai has 99 seats, MDC Mutambara (a sort of a splinter faction, but not fully a separate party) has 10, and Zanu-PF has 97, with one independent, out of 210 seats (3 seats had the winners die before the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,1047,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-corrections","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}