Who ran against Robert Mugabe in the latest election?

Answer 1

President Robert Gabriel Mugabe [b. February 21, 1924] was the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front [ZANU-PF] candidate in the presidential elections of March 29, 2008. Dr. Simbarashe Herbert Stanley, ka Simba, Makoni [b. March 22, 1950] was an independent candidate. And Morgan Richard Tsvangirai [b. March 10, 1952] was the Movement for Democratic Change [MDC] candidate. Results, which were released on May 2, 2008, showed presidential candidates Makoni and Tsvangirai with about 8% and about 47% of the vote, respectively; and President Mugabe with about 43%. If no candidate received 50% of the total vote, plus one vote, there needed to be a runoff. But Tsvangirai withdrew his participation in a second round, on June 22, 2008. On July 22, 2008, Mugabe and Tsvangirai met publicly, to begin work on a powersharing agreement, which was signed on September 15, 2008. As a result, on February 11, 2009, Mugabe was sworn in as President, Tsvangirai as Prime Minister, and Professor Arthur Guseni Oliver Mutambara [b. May 25, 1966] as Deputy Prime Minister.