Parliament results challenge signals more Zimbabwe vote turmoil

HARARE (AFP) — Zimbabwe, already facing a presidential run-off, hit new electoral turmoil on Wednesday after the ruling party and opposition filed legal challenges to half of the parliamentary results from March's polls.

State media said President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party, which lost its majority for the first time in the March 29 election, was now contesting the outcome in 53 of the 210 constituencies while the opposition was disputing 52.

Meanwhile the African Union urged all sides to shun violence in the build-up to the presidential election run-off as the opposition claimed 25 of its supporters had now been killed since the original polling day.

The Herald newspaper, the government's mouthpiece, said the volume of petitions filed with the electoral court had prompted the country's chief justice to appoint 17 more judges there.

Given that the electoral court can take up ...