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Poll says Mugabe lags behind

    JOHANNESBURG

    A week before the general election in Zimbabwe, an opinion poll has suggested a clear lead for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, the BBC said on Friday.

    The poll, conducted by a group at the University of Zimbabwe, forecast that the Movement would win at least seventy seats, with President Mugabe’s ZANU-PF getting forty. Another nine seats were described as too close to call.

    A spokesman for ZANU-PF dismissed the poll as unscientific.

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