Updated Nov 1, 2009 - 3:40 pm
Mozambique vote: Incumbent president, party lead
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E-mail this | MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) - Incumbent President Armando Guebuza leads in Mozambique's elections by a wide margin, with more than 80 percent of votes counted.
Results so far give Guebuza more than 76 percent of the presidential vote, and his Frelimo party between 75 and 80 percent of parliament's 250 seats.
Lucas Jose, a National Elections Commission spokesman, said Sunday it may take more than a week for remaining results to come in from remote regions. Presidential and parliamentary elections were held Oct. 28.
Foreign observers deemed voting free and fair.
Daviz Simango, third in the presidential race so far behind Guebuza and opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama, complains his party was unfairly left out of most parliamentary races. Election officials rejected his candidates' paperwork.
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