Mugabe plans to participate in Zimbabwe election runoff

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - A top aide to President Robert Mugabe says Mugabe will run in a second round of presidential balloting.

Emmerson Mnangagwa says Mugabe accepts results released Friday by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission.

Those results shows opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai won 47.9 percent of the vote on March 29 - not enough to avoid a runoff. The commission says Mugabe won 43.2 percent of votes.

The opposition Movement for Democratic Change is challenging the results, maintaining Tsvangirai won outright. The opposition says members of Mugabe's party would be welcome in a unity government, but not Mugabe.

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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Zimbabwe's opposition party is proposing sharing power with President Robert Mugabe's ruling party, but not with Mugabe.

Opposition leader Tendai Biti rejects official results calling for a presidential runoff and says the only way to resolve the impasse is with a "government of national healing."

He told reporters the opposition's presidential candidate Morgan Tsvangirai should form a unity government but that Mugabe should surrender power.

Official results released Friday said Tsvangirai won 47.9 percent of the vote to Mugabe's 43.2 percent.