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Ruling party holds key constituency

    JOHANNESBURG

    The ruling party of Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe won a crucial weekend by-election in the northeastern rural constituency of Bindura, AFP reported on Monday, quoting state television. Sunday’s election to replace Border Gezi, a late close aide to President Mugabe and former minister, was seen as a test of the political mood in the southern African country.

    Elliot Manyika of the ruling ZANU-PF won the election with 15,864 ballots, beating Elliot Pfebve of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), who garnered 9,456 votes. Officials said about 61 percent of registered voters cast ballots.

    The Bindura by-election campaign was marred by widespread violence.

    The ruling party has now won all three by-elections held since the June 2000 parliamentary elections. The by-elections were called after the deaths of the incumbent lawmaker. Pfebve has lost the bid for the seat in this ruling party stronghold for the second time. He lost the race in the June 2000 parliamentary elections, after a bloody campaign of intimidation that mainly targetted opposition supporters around the country.

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