<P> On 18 January 2018, President Mnangagwa spoke to the Financial Times in an interview, in which he invited the EU, UN and the Commonwealth to send missions to Zimbabwe in order to monitor the elections . </P> <P> On 29 July 2018, former President Mugabe gave a surprise press conference during which he stated he would not vote for Mnangagwa and ZANU - PF, the party he founded and led for decades . Instead, he expressed the wish to vote for his long - time rival party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) led by Nelson Chamisa . </P> <P> On 1 August, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission released preliminary results which show that the ruling party ZANU - PF has won the majority of seats in parliament . On 3 August, the Commission declared incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa the winner after receiving 2,460,463 (50.8%) votes to Nelson Chamisa's 2,147,436 (44.3%). </P> <P> The President of Zimbabwe is elected using the two - round system . </P>

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