The African Union election observer team said it has been encouraged that the both parties in Zimbabwe had shown willingness to engage in constructive dialogue, local media reported on Tuesday.
The observer said there was agreement on the need for talks between the ruling Zanu-PF party and the opposition MDC-T for the sake of the country.
"The AU Observer Mission is, however, encouraged that both parties have shown willingness to engage in constructive dialogue as a way forward for ensuring peace, stability and development in Zimbabwe," AU mission's head and former President of Sierra Leone Ahmed Tejan Kabbah told journalists on Monday.
Responding to questions, he said the mission was impressed bythe peaceful manner in which voters cast their ballots on the polling day.
"What I saw (here) was that the people went in and voted and from there they went straight home so that is what I value," he said.
The AU mission deployed its members in Harare, Midlands, Mashonaland East, West and Central, Bulawayo, Matabeleland North and South, Manicaland and Masvingo during the presidential run-offheld on Friday.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe won a landslide victory in the presidential run-off election. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) announced on Sunday that official results showed that Mugabe won all 10 of the country's provinces.
Mugabe won 85.5 percent of the votes in the election against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's 9.3 percent, defeating Tsvangirai by a huge margin, the ZEC said.
Chief elections officer Lovemore Sekeramyi said Mugabe had won a total of 2,150,269 votes against 233,000 for Tsvangirai, whoboycotted the election but whose name still appeared on ballot papers.
Zimbabwe held the presidential run-off election on Friday as scheduled despite opposition MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai's withdrawal from the race. But the ZEC said the withdrawal was of no legal effect because it was filed too late.
Tsvangirai received 47.9 percent of the votes in the first round of election held on March 29, followed by President Robert Mugabe's 43.2 percent.
An outright winner needs to obtain an absolute majority of the votes, otherwise a run-off needs to be held, according to Zimbabwe's law.
Source:Xinhua
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