(CNN) -- The run-off for Zimbabwe's presidential election will be held June 27, Zimbabwe's Electoral Commission said Friday.


Morgan Tsvangirai won 47.9 percent of the presidential vote according to official results.

In the first round of voting March 29, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), received more votes than President Robert Mugabe, but the electoral commission's official tally said Tsvangirai failed to win enough votes to avoid a runoff.

MDC disputed that, saying that Tsvangirai won 50.3 percent of the vote, giving him the necessary majority. The party argued that the election commission, which delayed publicly releasing the results for weeks, had fudged the numbers to protect Mugabe.
"My party, the Movement for Democratic Change, is a government-in-waiting that is not prepared to wait anymore," Tsvangirai told a political conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Friday.

"We will pioneer a new form of democratic governance, taking our agenda directly to the people," he said. "After all, the MDC began as a people's party. Never again will we take something so precious as freedom for granted."

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