If Mr Tsvangirai wins - and I am not suggesting that is either likely or certain - and if Zanu-PF claims he has done so because of foreign support, then Zanu-PF's justice minister will not accept the result.
As in Kenya, the two leading presidential candidates - Zanu-PF's President Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai of the MDC - finally came together in early 2009 to form a unity government that has helped bring stability to the country.
Mugabe's ZANU-PF party and Tsvangirai's MDC party have been negotiating over the distribution of cabinet posts in a unity government.
ZANU-PF's own electoral agents endorsed the counts in polling stations, it is disputing results in 22 of the 210 parliamentary constituencies.
The combined opposition holds 110 seats against ZANU-PF's 97.
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The coalition between Mr Mugabe's Zanu-PF party and Mr Tsvangirai's MDC party was formed under pressure from regional leaders after the disputed 2008 election.
Further south, Zimbabwe did not have Kenya's queues but a referendum on a new constitution passed off with overwhelming support from all parties - including President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF - a constitution that will now limit presidential rule to two five-year terms amongst other nuggets of democratic expression.
Mr Mugabe's Zanu-PF party was also accused of unleashing violence against MDC supporters, an allegation it denied.
Mugabe's Zanu-PF party alleges that the opposition is engaged in election tampering.
Mr Mugabe's Zanu-PF gets 15, with the remaining three going to another small opposition party led by Arthur Mutambara, which holds just ten parliamentary seats.
Mugabe's Zanu-PF party could not be reached immediately for comment.
Mugabe's ZANU-PF party and the Movement for Democratic Change, led by Tsvangirai, have failed to implement the September 15 power-sharing deal because they cannot agree on who should control key ministries.
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President Robert Mugabe's ruling party, ZANU-PF, did well in the rural areas, especially in the north.
Many Zanu-PF bigwigs were particularly concerned by Zimbabwe's international isolation.
But recently an independent committee monitoring Pfizer's two big studies of the drug, know known as PF-3512676, took a scheduled look at the data.
Mr Mugabe's mortality terrifies the security bosses and hardliners in his Zanu-PF party.
Carter's call for African leaders to step up pressure on Mugabe came a day before Tsvangirai asked South Africa's Mbeki to bow out as mediator between the MDC and Zanu-PF.
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Mr Nkomo was a member of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (Zapu), which formed a unity government with Zanu-PF in 1987 to end conflict in the western Matabeleland region.
There was talk when I was there of what they call a third force that--which would be dissident members of Mr. Mugabe's party, Zanu PF, joining up with some of the current opposition, the MDC.
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