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 HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - President Robert Mugabe said Saturday that he hoped to stay in power until he was 100 as he celebrated an overwhelming victory in parliamentary elections that all but his supporters and a few African neighbors said were rigged.
The opposition Movement for Democratic Change, or MDC, refused to accept the election results, saying Thursday's vote was flawed — a view shared by the United States and Britain. The MDC held talks with southern African observers to point out huge discrepancies in the results but made no attempt to organize mass protests.
"This is a moment of victory for my party and the victory of my party translates itself, naturally, into a victory for our country," the 81-year-old Mugabe declared as results showed that he had cleared the two-thirds majority needed to change the constitution.
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